Chandigarh bomb‑threat email

Police in Chandigarh opened a cyber probe after bomb-threat emails targeted schools, the Secretariat and two Air India flights on April 16, and searches found nothing suspicious. (indianexpress.com) The emails were reported Thursday morning by several schools, including St Soldier International School in Sector 45, along with the Chandigarh Secretariat and two Air India flights, prompting police, bomb squads and fire teams to fan out across the city. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Chandigarh Police said anti-sabotage checks were carried out at the affected sites and no explosive material was found, while cyber teams began tracing the sender through the email’s technical trail. (indianexpress.com) The scare landed after months of repeated hoax threats in Chandigarh, where 30 schools were hit by near-identical bomb emails on January 28 and government buildings were threatened again in February and early April. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) That run of threats has widened from school campuses to courts, the mayor’s office, the Punjab and Haryana Secretariat and now commercial flights, forcing repeated evacuations and security sweeps even when nothing is recovered. (indianexpress.com) The pressure on local authorities is higher because Chandigarh has also dealt with a real security incident this month: investigators were called in after a crude explosive device was hurled outside the Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party office. (indianexpress.com) Parents’ groups have said the earlier school hoaxes exposed gaps in crisis communication, after families rushed to campuses in January amid confusion over evacuations and school closures. (indianexpress.com) For now, the April 16 alerts have ended the same way as the earlier sweeps: no bomb found, classes and offices disrupted, and investigators trying to identify who keeps sending the emails. (indianexpress.com)