India News | Private School in Delhi's RK Puram Receives Bomb Threat by Mail, Police Say 'hoax'
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. According to officials, the email was received on the official e-mail account of Lal Bahadur Shastri School (LBS) late on Wednesday evening.
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): A private school in Delhi's RK Puram received a bomb threat on their official email, that later turned out to be a hoax, police said on Thursday.
According to officials, the email was received on the official e-mail account of Lal Bahadur Shastri School (LBS) late on Wednesday evening.
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The police were informed about the threat mail and a thorough investigation into the matter was conducted on Thursday morning.
The mail was declared a hoax upon investigation by police and further search for the person who sent the e-mail is being carried on, said police.
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As per the reports, after the e-mail was declared a hoax, the school functioned on its routine schedule and an exam that was supposed to be conducted on Thursday was eventually conducted by the school authorities.
Earlier in May this year, a private school in Delhi's Push Vihar area had received an email with a warning of explosives on the premises.
Several teams of police and a bomb squad were rushed to the School after police received information that the school had received a bomb threat via e-mail.
Students were evacuated from the school premises as searches were conducted.
The email threat was later turned out to be a hoax and nothing suspicious was found during a search of the school premises, police had said. (ANI)
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