Overview

• Delhi High Court staff received an email at 8:39 am claiming three IEDs and warning of a detonation after mid-day prayers with instructions to vacate by 2 pm.
• Bomb squads, sniffer dogs, CRPF personnel and fire services cleared the Delhi High Court, and proceedings resumed post-lunch after DCP Devesh Kumar Mahla said the threat was false.
• Bombay High Court got a similar threat around 1 pm, prompting evacuation and BDDS searches that found nothing suspicious as hearings were briefly suspended.
• Investigators report common markers across threats, including Outlook sender IDs, VPN masking and incendiary political narratives referencing South Indian figures and alleged ISI links.
• Authorities are treating the court emails as part of a wider wave of hoax threats that has recently targeted schools, hospitals and government offices across multiple states.