The Delhi Secretariat, the Assembly, the Speaker’s office as well as two city schools received bomb threat emails on Monday, prompting authorities to evacuate the premises. While all the threats turned out to be hoax, security has been tightened at all Metro stations and prominent locations.
According to an official from the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), a call regarding the Army Public School in Delhi Cantonment receiving a bomb threat email was received at 8.50 am. Fire department officials, along with Bomb Detection Team, Bomb Disposal Squad and Dog Squad, reached the school and conducted checks.
Air Force Bal Bharati at Lodhi Colony also received a similar email. According to the DFS, they received a call from the school at 9.36 am.
They added that around noon, a call was received about a bomb threat email sent to the Delhi Secretariat. Police said the Delhi Assembly and Speaker’s office also received similar emails.
All the threats were later declared a hoax.
Police said that according to the emails, which stated “Delhi banega Khalistan”, there will be blasts in Delhi Army School, Red Fort and Metro stations in the next three days.
Police said this is the third time in a month that schools have received such hoax threats.
On February 13, around a dozen schools, including Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Lodhi Estate, Kendriya Vidyalaya in Gole Market, and Delhi Tamil Education Association on Pusa Road, received bomb threat emails.
On February 9, at least 12 schools, including Delhi Public School, Bal Bharati in Rohini and Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, received such emails. On January 29, at least eight schools in Delhi received bomb threat emails from an unknown person, who used a VPN to send the emails.
Over the past one and a half years, such threats have been received more than 50 times by schools (Credit: Instagram) 
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