Delhi School Bomb Threat: 14-Year-Old Sent Hoax Email As He Didn’t Want To Attend School

The Delhi Police on Saturday revealed that a 14-year-old student has been identified as a suspect for sending a bomb threat to a private school in Greater Kailash area, reported news agency ANI.

The police said that the student didn’t want to attend the school, therefore, he sent the bomb threat email to his school. Upon questioning, the student further revealed that he mentioned two more schools in the hoax email to make it look genuine.

Summer Fields School in Kailash Colony, Greater Kailash area on Friday received an email threatening to blow up the school with a bomb. The building was then evacuated as a precautionary measure.

The email was received by the school around midnight, claiming that a bomb was planted in the school’s premises on Thursday. Thorough checking was done by the bomb detection team and nothing suspicious was found, a police officer said and added that a dog squad was also deployed for the search.

Principal of Summer Fields School, Shalini Agarwal said, “We received an email late at night which was checked early morning today. As per the SOP, we evacuated the students within 10 minutes of receiving the email. We informed the police and district administration, and we are thankful to the police – they supported us magnificently as they came immediately. There are hardly any students here, we are just waiting for a few parents to come and collect their wards. Police and bomb squad are here and they are checking the premises…There was absolutely no panic amongst the parents.”

The police added that a case was registered, and a probe was underway.

Earlier in May, over 130 schools across Delhi-NCR received bomb threats causing much panic among the students and administration. Investigation agencies suspected that the email, which was sent to schools in Delhi-NCR, originated from a server located in Russia.

Recently, schools, hospitals and airports have been targeted by bomb threats. Previously, over 60 schools, the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and over half a dozen government hospitals in the national capital received bomb threats through emails. Delhi police later said that nothing suspicious was found.