Madhya Pradesh: Private School Receives Bomb Threat on Email, Police Suspect ‘Prank’

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Last Update: April 18, 2023, 4:34 pm IST

Police is probing the matter with the help of Cyber ​​Crime Squad (Representational Image)

Police is probing the matter with the help of Cyber ​​Crime Squad (Representational Image)

Sunil Sharma said that a message was sent to the email address of Delhi International School claiming that a bomb had been planted on the campus and it would explode in three hours.

A private school in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore had allegedly received an email claiming that a bomb had been planted on its premises, police said on Monday.

However, police have said that the email received on April 14 appears to be “a prank”.

Chandan Nagar police station in-charge Sunil Sharma said a message was sent to the email address of Delhi International School at around 9 am on Dr BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, claiming that a bomb had been planted in the campus and it would explode within three hours. I will explode. ,

“Since April 14 was a public holiday on account of Ambedkar Jayanti, the school staff read the threatening email on April 15 and registered a complaint and an FIR was lodged,” the official said.

Prima facie it appears that someone has played mischief by threatening to blow up the school. However, the police is probing the matter with the help of cybercrime squad.

Officials said a police bomb disposal squad searched the school premises, but no bomb has been found so far.

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