Security alert: Delhi School receives bomb threat mail, investigation underway

After receiving a bomb threat over email on Tuesday morning, a school in the country's capital experienced panic, according to authorities from Delhi Police.

Delhi Police and other teams hurried to Pushp Vihar's Amrita School and carried out a comprehensive search operation as soon as they received the information.

“A thorough checking of the school has been done through Bomb Disposal Team (BDT) but nothing was found,” said DCP South Chandan Chowdhary.

According to the Delhi Police, an inquiry is in progress.

An official said that earlier on May 12, a bomb threat was received at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, however, it was later determined to be a false alarm when the police discovered nothing "suspicious".

Rajesh Deo, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast), reports that DPS Mathura Road got information yesterday regarding a bomb threat via email.

“Police and Bomb Disposal Squad reached the school. Later it was found that the e-mail was sent by a student 2 Bomb Disposal teams along with dogs and local staff manually searched the school but nothing suspicious was found, it was a hoax call,” he added.

According to the official, after reaching the school, “Police checked the computer system/mail of school, wherein it was found the said mail was received on Thursday around at 6:17 p.m. From the technical investigation, we came to know that the said email address belongs to a student, who denied sending the mail,” said the official. (ANI)

                                                                                                     

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