Overview
- Courts were evacuated and proceedings halted as bomb squads and dog units swept complexes following threat emails to official court addresses.
- Incidents were reported across Odisha, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, with the Himachal High Court and multiple district courts affected.
- Police said no explosives were found at the searched sites and described several threats as hoaxes, allowing many courts to resume operations.
- Cyber teams have opened cases to identify the senders, with officials in multiple jurisdictions citing early leads that point in some instances to southern India or Tamil-language content.
- State leaders and senior police ordered heightened security and reviews, with Bihar authorities initiating a security audit of Patna Civil Court following the latest scare.