3 Delhi schools get hoax bomb threats, 4th such incident in a week

Police teams, bomb disposal squads and fire tenders conducted searches inside the schools. The buildings were evacuated, and thorough checking was conducted to ensure the safety of the students, officials said.

Five schools, including Maxfort, reported receiving bomb threats on Thursday.

On Wednesday, around 50 schools in the national capital received bomb threats again through e-mail, which were again later declared a hoax.

On Monday, over 30 schools across Delhi received similar threats, which later turned out to be hoaxes.

According to police officials, the senders used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to send the emails and prevent authorities from tracking them.

Last year, the national capital witnessed 25 such cases, and this year, schools have already received bomb threat emails five times. As per police records, only a few cases were solved last year, and just one so far this year.

Last December, the police had zeroed in on a student who had allegedly emailed a bomb threat to his school to avoid an examination. The student had used an email ID without VPN, making it easier for the police to track him. The child was counselled and allowed to go.

In July this year, investigation revealed that a minor boy had allegedly sent fake threats to two educational institutions — Delhi University’s St Stephen’s College and St Thomas School in Dwarka. He was briefly detained and released after counselling, police said.

During the counselling session, the student revealed that he wanted schools to be shut down and had randomly added the email IDs of the institutions. In this case, too, the boy had not used a VPN, an officer said.

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