Overview
- Several schools in central Delhi received emailed bomb threats on Monday, prompting on-site evacuations at institutions including Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Lodhi Estate and Chinmaya Vidyalaya in Vasant Vihar.
- Police, the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, sniffer dogs and the Delhi Fire Services responded with coordinated anti-sabotage searches and a fire tender was sent to Vasant Vihar.
- Officials reported that searches turned up nothing suspicious and school administrations informed parents that students were safely evacuated to assembly points.
- At least one of the schools had faced similar bomb-threat emails about two weeks earlier, a pattern that has already disrupted examinations and regular operations.
- Affected campuses will remain closed until they are formally declared safe, a process that could prolong exam and school-day interruptions and place repeated demands on security resources.