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Hoax bomb threats target Delhi HC, airport, government offices
The Delhi High Court, Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport, and three government offices received hoax bomb threat e-mails on Friday morning, triggering security checks a day before Independence Day. The…
The Story in Brief
The Delhi High Court, Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport, and three government offices received hoax bomb threat e-mails on Friday morning, triggering security checks a day before Independence Day. The Delhi Fire Services received alerts from 11.18 am onwards, including the Cantonment SDM office, Jamnagar House, Saket SDM office, and a building in Jhandewalan.
Bomb disposal squads, sniffer dog teams and DFS personnel conducted extensive searches and found nothing suspicious. The Delhi High Court later received a separate threat claiming a blast at 2.11 pm; that too was a hoax. Police are investigating the source of the e-mails. The threats follow similar hoax e-mails to Delhi schools on August 3 and to Gurugram offices on July 31.
The Indian Opinion
Yet again, hoax bomb threats waste precious security resources a day before Independence Day. It is easy to cry 'terror plot' and demand draconian steps, but the real question is accountability. What specific technical or procedural deterrence is being deployed to trace these e-mails and make the senders pay? Until a single conviction is secured, these pranks will keep repeating.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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