A team of the Mumbai Police and its Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) rushed to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) highrise tower in South Mumbai and conducted a search of the premises after a BSE employee received a threat to bomb the BSE building through an email supposedly sent on Sunday by a certain Comrade 'Pinari' Vijayan, the police said.
Massive search operation was being conducted by security agencies at all metro stations and rails and in the state capital on Friday evening following a bomb threat.
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.
