More than 40 schools in Delhi have received bomb threats via e-mail on Monday (December 9). According to news agency ANI, Delhi police has said that the mailer has asked for $30,000 in order to not detonate the bombs.
“I planted multiple bombs inside (school) buildings. The bombs are small and hidden very well. It will not cause much damage to the building, but many people will be injured when the bombs detonate. If I do not receive $30,000 I will detonate the bombs,” the email read.
This comes shortly after DPS RK Puram and GD Goenka Public School in Paschim Vihar received bomb threat emails earlier today. The Delhi Fire Department was notified at approximately 7 am and the police was also promptly informed. Both schools then evacuated students and sent them home as a safety precaution.
This incident echoes a similar scare in May, when nearly 150 Delhi schools received bomb threat calls. Subsequent investigations revealed that the emails originated from Budapest, Hungary, alleging explosives had been planted on school premises.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi attacked the Central government and said that the BJP-ruled central government has failed in its only task of providing security.
“After the daily incidents of ransom, murders, firing in Delhi, now threats of bombing of schools are being received. The law and order situation in Delhi has never been so bad before. The BJP-ruled central government has failed in its only task of providing security to the people of Delhi,” Atishi posted on X.
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah and said that the people of Delhi have never seen such a bad state of law and order.
(With agency inputs)