Delhi Public School in RK Puram receives bomb threat, investigation underway
- Delhi news: The school received an email about two bombs on the premises at about 9 am after which the administration immediately informed the police.
Delhi Public School (DPS) in RK Puram on Friday received a bomb threat mail. According to the PTI news agency, DPS RK Puram received an email about two bombs on the premises at about 9 am after which the administration immediately informed the police.
The school was immediately vacated and a search operation was launched.
Police are tracking the IP address of the email.
Separately, Mumbai traffic police control room received a similar threat that bombs have been placed at six locations across the city.
Mumbai police and other agencies are tracing the message sender.
In September last year, the Lal Bahadur Shastri School in RK Puram also received an email about a bomb on the premises that later turned out to be a hoax.
In May, the Delhi Public School in Mathura Road received a similar hoax email about a bomb.
The Indian School in Sadiq Nagar received two bomb threats, the last one on April 12, 2023, via email. The first one was over the phone in November 2022. Both turned out to be hoaxes.
Last week, a Noida-based BPO employee was arrested for allegedly making a hoax bomb call in an attempt to delay his flight from Darbhanga in Bihar to Delhi as he was running late.
The call was made to SpiceJet's Gurugram-based call centre and the caller had identified himself as Kishore.
During the call, he stated that he had overheard two men talking about a bomb in SpiceJet flight number SG-8496 flying from Darbhanga to Delhi on January 24.
Following the call, Delhi airport was put on high alert as the flight had already departed from Darbhanga".
Following the thorough search of the aircraft, the bomb threat call was found to be a hoax.
Police registered a case against Kishore under Indian Penal Code sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and 507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication).
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First Published:2 Feb 2024, 02:34 PM IST
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