Days after the crude bomb blast outside the Central Reserves Police Forces (CRPF) public school in Delhi’s Rohini area, an email threat was received at the central agency’s school in Telangana’s Hyderabad on Tuesday threatening to blow up five schools across the country. However, official sources later confirmed that the email turned out to be a hoax.
According to police sources, an email was received in a CRPF school in Medchal near Hyderabad threatening to blow up three CRPF schools in Delhi and Hyderabad, and two Kendriya Vidyalayas within the forces’ office premises in other cities.
The three CRPF schools include two in Delhi (Rohini and Dwarka), one in Hyderabad (Telangana); while the two Kendriya Vidyalayas are within the paramilitary forces’ office premises at Panchkula (Haryana) and Rampur (Uttar Pradesh).
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Dwarka, Ankit Singh said, “The CRPF school in Dwarka did not receive any message or mail regarding the same. However, the message was shared to us by stay alert.
The school also announced a holiday for students.” He added that a bomb squad was deployed, and the school was checked by anti-sabotage teams.
Singh stated that nothing suspicious was found. However, student turnout has remained relatively low and business owners in the Rohini area continue to bear the brunt of the blast. Eateries opposite to the school remain shut as locals said that they have been asked to do so by the police.
A senior Delhi Police officer, who did not wish to be named, said the cyber cell has launched a probe into the threat mail and the police has written to the email service provider to get the user ID and other details of the sender.
“A Delhi Police cyber cell team has been constituted to probe if the threat was in any way linked to a blast Sunday morning at the CRPF Public School in Rohini’s Prashant Vihar in Delhi,” he said. The hoax threat was received by Monday night and claimed that the improvised devices may explode on the schools’ premises by 11 am on Tuesday.
Security and intelligence agencies are probing the role of alleged Khalistani supporters in the Sunday morning blast after a purported Telegram post was being circulated on social media which claimed that the blast was carried out in retaliation to the “targeting” of pro-Khalistan separatists allegedly by Indian agents.
“If the Indian coward agency and their master think they can hire filthy goons to target our members to silence our voice then they live in a fool’s world. They can’t imagine how close we are to them and how capable we are to strike anytime #KhalistanZindabad #JLI,” read a Telegram post by “Justice League India,” it read.
According to the sources, the sender has also mentioned “politics in Tamil Nadu” and sacked DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq in the email. The CRPF schools are run by the country’s largest paramilitary force that is deployed in three major combat theatres of anti-Naxal operations, counterterrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and counter-insurgency in the Northeast. There are a total of 14 schools in the country of the CRPF.
