Overview
- On Monday, several district and sessions courts across Maharashtra received emailed bomb threats that led to immediate evacuations and security alerts.
- Police summoned Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads, dog teams and local officers to search court complexes and so far searches in Thane, Hingoli, Beed and other sites have found no suspicious items.
- Some emails specified exact detonation times, for example warnings that mentioned 3:30 pm in Thane and 3:11 pm in Beed and Palghar, prompting full sanitisation procedures.
- Searches remain underway at locations including Pune’s Shivajinagar court while district cybercrime units work to trace IP addresses and identify who sent the messages.
- The incidents have disrupted court business, increased visible security at judicial buildings and could prompt tighter email filters and verification steps for official court communications.