Students Send Bomb Threats To Their Own Schools To Postpone Exam In Delhi
New Delhi: As concerns regarding back-to-back bomb threat emails and messages grip schools in the national capital, forcing closure and disruption in academic activities, Delhi police on Sunday disclosed that behind some emails sent to at least three schools were students of the same institutions.
A police official from the Delhi Police special cell told that two siblings sent bomb threat emails to their schools because they wanted their exams to be postponed, reports Times of India, citing police. Police said that the students revealed that they got the idea of the bomb threat from the previous such incidents. The police have given warning to the students’ parents before letting them go.
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Police added that two more schools located in Rohini and Paschim Vihar also received bomb threats from their own students. In this case, the emails were sent by two different students for the same reasons that they wanted their examination to be postponed as they had not prepared.
The police said they counseled the students and let them go since both of them were students. In recent times, there have been several instances of bomb threats to schools in the national capital, causing panic and disrupting studies of thousands of students. The AAP had slammed the central government for not addressing the issue, holding Union Home Minister accountable for maintaining the law and order situation.
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In December itself, over 50 schools have received bomb threats, causing shutdowns as precautionary security reasons. Most of them have been declared a mere hoax threats since nothing suspicious have been found. Notably , in October, a teenager was arrested by the Mumbai police for sending hoax bomb threat calls to three flights.
