Overview
- Multiple district and sessions courts across Maharashtra were evacuated after receiving bomb threat emails on Monday, Nov. 2, prompting immediate searches by police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad.
- Thane, Hingoli and Beed completed BDDS and dog‑squad searches that found no suspicious items and judges, lawyers and staff were safely evacuated.
- Shivajinagar court in Pune was also evacuated and a BDDS team was conducting searches at the time of reporting, with police keeping the area secured.
- Local cybercrime teams and LCB units are tracing IP addresses and investigating the emails to establish origin and intent, and officials have not confirmed a single sender or coordination between incidents.
- The threats have paused court work and could delay hearings while forensic tracing continues, and authorities are treating the messages seriously even as they consider the possibility of hoaxes.