Hoax bomb threats seem to have become a continuous story in Kerala.
A 38-year-old person was held for making threat calls to two iconic monuments, the Red Fort and Jama Masjid in the Old Delhi area, Police said on Thursday.
In a series of hoax threats that have rocked the national capital, the Dwarka court in South West Delhi became the latest target after receiving a bomb-related email on Wednesday, police said.
Delhi Police has made a breakthrough in the investigation into a series of hoax emails sent to schools across the city, which had caused widespread panic and disruption since February 2024 suspecting the involvement of an NGO having connection with a political party.
The arrest of the accused student came when several schools received bomb-related threats on Thursday. According to officials, he sent the bomb threats at least six times and marked different schools each time except his own.
At least seven prominent schools in Delhi were thrown into chaos amid panic over bomb threats received on Friday morning through an email which turned out to be a hoax, police officials said.
A hoax bomb alert in the old walled city here on Friday kept the police on their toes for hours in search of explosives.
A 25-year-old West Delhi resident was arrested for issuing a hoax bomb threat to the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport via a social media account in an attempt to draw attention to himself.
Hoax bomb threats or other unusual happenings continued to mar normal operations – take-off or landing – of at least three flights of different airlines in Rajasthan on Friday.
According to the police, the fake call was received in the morning and immediately teams of police and the bomb disposal squad rushed to the airport. However, after thorough checking, no explosive device was found at the airport.
