Delhi minister sniffs conspiracy in school bomb scare

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School bomb scare leaves political slugfest trails

By Our Special Correspondent

New Delhi, May 1: Delhi Police on Wednesday said that e-mail threats received by some schools were hoax. The Delhi Police called upon the people not to panic.

“Some schools of Delhi received E-mails regarding bomb threats. Delhi Police has conducted thorough check of all such schools as per protocol. Nothing objectionable has been found,” the Delhi Police said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

The police also stated that “it appears that these calls seem to be hoax”. “We request the public not to panic and maintain peace,” added the Delhi Police.

Reports claimed that over 60 schools in the Delhi national capital region received the e-mail threat on Wednesday morning. The school authorities rushed the children back to their respective homes. The police carried out the safety drills on the school campuses.

“This is to inform you that the school has received an email that threatens the safety and security of the students. As a precautionary measure we are sending the students back home immediately,” said a school in the Delhi NCR in communication sent to parents.

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The school also asked the private commuters to arrange to collect their children from the school premises. “The belongings of your children are in the school premises for safety reasons,” added another note from the school.

The schools such as DPS, Sanskriti, and others received the threat e-mails. This is a rare occasion that several schools at the same time received the hoax e-mail threats.

Meanwhile, the hoax threat e-mail triggered a political slugfest. “Last night, BJP spokespersons were repeatedly scaring about serial bomb blasts, and today false rumours have been spread about bombs in schools all over Delhi,” said Delhi minister and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Saurabh Bhardwaj in a post on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

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Bhardwaj tagged his comment to a post of the BJP spokesperson Tajinder Bagga, who claimed: “The country will never go back to that era when serial bomb blasts took place in every part of the country during the dark rule of the impotent Congress government.”

Bagga further said: “We cannot forget those bomb blasts in Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Karol Bagh, Sarojini Nagar, Connaught Palace.”