Overview
- Threat emails hit district courts in Odisha (Cuttack, Sambalpur, Deogarh), Bihar’s Patna Civil Court and multiple courts in Chhattisgarh, triggering evacuations, suspending hearings and sweeping searches.
- Patna police said no explosives were found, registered a case, engaged the Cyber Cell and called the email a likely hoax, with a security audit ordered for the complex.
- Odisha’s police chief reported heightened checks and close monitoring, while Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi ordered a probe and senior officials to review security.
- Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon, Durg and Bilaspur courts received emailed threats that mentioned RDX and suicide attacks, yet searches recovered nothing suspicious.
- Similar emails reached courts in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala’s Kasaragod, Punjab’s Ropar and Ferozepur, Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa and Andhra Pradesh, where inspections found no devices and investigators began tracing senders, with one probe indicating a possible origin in southern India.