Overview
- Police received an email on November 16 from kamakshi_selvaganesh@mail2tor.email claiming explosives at Chief Minister M. K. Stalin’s residence.
- BDDS teams searched the CM’s home between 10:00 and 11:05 a.m. and found no suspicious objects, declaring the alerts hoaxes after citywide checks.
- Subsequent threats named residences of Ajith Kumar, Rajinikanth, K. S. Ravikumar, M. K. Alagiri and others, along with sites including Chennai One IT Park, the Mylapore Saibaba Temple, PSBB School, IIT Madras and a Malaysia Airlines flight.
- Police increased monitoring around the listed residences and locations as a precaution while examining both emails and related phone calls.
- Officials note similarities to earlier hoax threats reported in July, on August 15 and on October 3, prompting a technical probe into server paths and routing.