Overview

• On July 7, Veraval District Court in Gujarat was evacuated after an email threatened to blow it up, but thorough searches by bomb disposal and sniffer dog squads found no explosives.
• On July 8, the Chief Judge of Hyderabad City Civil Court received an email claiming four RDX-based IEDs were planted, prompting an evacuation and a search that confirmed no suspicious items.
• Cyber Crime Cell and local police units have launched digital forensic investigations to trace the anonymous senders.
• In late June, Ahmedabad cybercrime police arrested a Chennai-based IT engineer for allegedly sending 13 similar hoax emails.
• The sustained wave of false bomb threats since early June has strained security protocols at courts, schools and public venues in Gujarat and Telangana.