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Hoax Bomb Threat Emails Evacuate Over 60 Schools and Colleges in Delhi and Bengaluru

Authorities declared the bomb threats hoaxes after exhaustive searches found no explosives, filing an FIR over related aviation calls, deploying cybercrime teams to trace anonymized senders

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Overview

  • Early on July 18, more than 60 educational institutions in Delhi and Bengaluru received identical bomb threat emails, prompting mass evacuations and campus lockdowns.
  • Three Delhi University colleges—Indraprastha College for Women, Hindu College and Shri Ram College of Commerce—were among the targets of the TNT-laden warning messages.
  • Bomb disposal squads, dog units and fire services conducted thorough searches at each site and found no explosive devices, leading officials to confirm the alerts as hoaxes.
  • Navi Mumbai police registered an FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita over July 16 calls threatening a Mumbai-Ahmedabad flight and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, tracing the mobile numbers used.
  • Cybercrime divisions are scrutinizing email headers, VPN networks and dark-web proxies to unmask the anonymous senders and thwart further disruptions.