The Delhi High Court received a bomb threat on Friday, prompting high-alert measures and the evacuation of judges, lawyers, litigants, and staff from the premises as a precaution.
According to Delhi Police sources, the threat was sent via email, claiming that three bombs had been planted in the court premises and demanding evacuation by 2 pm. The message, however, did not specify the exact locations of the explosives. A Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad was immediately deployed, and the area was cordoned off for a thorough search.
The email, sent from an email under the name Kanimozhi Thevidiya, carried incoherent political references. It claimed that, "Thus, to create a new evolution of secular leader, the bottlenecks of the equation the heir apparent, will be eliminated so that the pseudo-secularists will leave and only dedicated secularists will come to party power."
The message further proposed that Dr Ezhilan Naganathan take over the DMK, and threatened that Inbanidhi Udhayanidhi, son of Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, would be attacked with acid this week.
"The assets within the Police have been sown since 2017, for this Holy Friday. As a sample, today's blast in your Delhi High Court will clear the doubt of previous bluffs. Judge Chamber will detonate shortly after Mid-day Islamic Prayers," the mail said.
The incident comes amid a spate of similar hoax threats targeting institutions across the National Capital Region in recent months. Authorities are investigating the origin of the email. The incident comes amid a spate of similar hoax threats targeting institutions across the National Capital Region in recent months. Authorities are investigating the origin of the email.
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