Bomb Threat Emails Sent to Courts in Thane, Hingoli, Pune and Beed; No Suspicious Objects Found

On Monday, a security scare rocked The district and sessions courts in Maharashtra's Pune, Thane, Hingoli and Beed as they were inundated with emails containing threats to bomb their respective buildings.

A search is on at the district and sessions court in Shivajinagar, Pune while police has not reported anything suspicious at the courts in Thane, Hingoli and Beed.

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The police had received a warning of a bomb explosion at 3.30 pm at the Thane city court building in the afternoon, prompting the evacuation.

A dog squad and BDDS personnel searched the entire court complex, officials informed, while personnel from Thane Nagar police evacuated the entire court, with judges, advocates and other staff members being taken out of the premises.

The search is ongoing but nothing suspicious has been found so far, he added.

A threat to bomb was received at the court premises and the premises of the Pune branch of the Shivaji National Law College was evacuated in the city, a police officer in Pune said.

The court administration received a bomb threat by email that a bomb has been placed in the court building.

Mail was received and court premises evacuated, Bomb Detection & Disposal Squad called, Search for any suspect object in progress, he said.

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An email alerting of the threat of a bomb attack to the court building was discovered after the court resumed its functioning in the morning in Hingoli in Marathwada.

The court authorities immediately notified the police and then a team of police officers joined by the BDDS went to the spot and conducted a detailed search.

The email could be a hoax, said a police official, while the Hingoli cybercrime unit has started an investigation to trace the source of the email.

Another such message was received in Beed, in the Marathwada region, at 11:52 am alerting about a bomb blast at 3:11 pm after which the court complex was evacuated, local officials said.

A police, BDDS and LCB team, including a dog squad, went to the court complex. The teams are conducting sanitisation and search, Additional Superintendent of Police Shaikh Sameer said.

Cyber teams are confirming that the IP is not fake or a part of an unannounced drill, he added.

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