Overview

• On July 7, the Veraval District Court in Gujarat was evacuated after an email warned of an explosion, with bomb disposal and dog squads clearing the premises and finding no suspicious items.
• At 3:15 am on July 8, the Hyderabad City Civil Court received an anonymous RDX-based bomb threat email, prompting a full evacuation and exhaustive search that yielded no explosives.
• Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Police have arrested a Chennai-based IT engineer accused of sending 13 hoax emails targeting Gujarat courts and other institutions.
• The Gujarat Cyber Crime Cell is probing a Tamil Nadu-linked motive in the Veraval threat while Hyderabad authorities work to trace the hoax email’s digital origin.
• These cases are the most recent in a wave of more than 40 false bomb threat emails since April, which have repeatedly disrupted judicial and public facilities across India.