Panic gripped a school in South Delhi’s Pushp Vihar after it received a bomb threat via email on Tuesday morning. According to the details, the bomb threat was received at Amrita School in the area, during the early hours on Tuesday morning. Delhi Police and other teams rushed to the school premises as soon as they received information about the bomb threat and conducted a thorough search operation after immediately evacuating the building. However, no suspicious object was found during the search. Recently, there has been a spurt of bomb threat incidents in Delhi schools. This is the third incidents in the past one and a half month. 

According to a senior police officer, Amrita School was evacuated immediately after the threat was received and its buildings were checked but nothing suspicious was found.  Chandan Choudhary, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) said, “An email was received today (Tuesday) morning at 6.33 am at Amrita School, Saket, regarding a bomb threat. A thorough checking of the school has been done through Bomb Disposal Team but nothing was found.” A teacher of the school said all students were safely evacuated and sent home with their parents. “I was conducting the morning assembly in class around 8 am when the teachers were informed to stop all activities and safely lead the students out of the school building,” she said.

Parents rushed to the school after receiving a message on the school WhatsApp group to receive their children as soon as possible. The parent of a UKG student said that she received a message on the WhatsApp group around 8.30 am.