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Punjab and Haryana High Court again gets email with bomb threat, search yields nothing

This is the second bomb threat email that the Punjab and Haryana High Court has received in nearly three months.

Nearly three months after the Punjab and Haryana High Court received a bomb hoax email, officials of the court again got a similar email on Tuesday, warning about an “explosion” on the court premises, the police said on Wednesday. (File photo)

According to sources, the threat mail was delivered to the official email ID of the high court registrar on Tuesday night. The sender warned of multiple blasts on the court premises, specifying that the explosions would occur around 1.35 pm on Wednesday.

After the registrar informed Chandigarh Police on Wednesday, they conducted a massive search inside the high court complex.

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Sumer Partap Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police (Security), along with the deputy superintendent of police and the station house officer of the Sector 3 station, reached the spot. Sniffer dogs, a bomb disposal squad, experts from a Central Forensic Science Laboratory, and the operations cell of the police jointly searched the entire premises, including judges’ chambers, for nearly two hours but found nothing objectionable, the sources said.

The police have launched an investigation and are verifying the email’s origin and the sender’s details.

It may be recalled that the Sector 3 police registered an FIR against unknown people after the high court received an email on May 22 with the threat that a bomb had been planted near the court’s Gate No 1.

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