NEW DELHI: A bomb threat emailed to a school in Delhi's Greater Kailash area was discovered to be a hoax orchestrated by a 14-year-old student who wanted to avoid attending classes, according to police reports on Saturday.
The email, which threatened to blow up Summer Fields School in Kailash Colony, Greater Kailash-1, prompted an immediate evacuation of the school's premises on Friday. The threat was sent late Thursday night and discovered early Friday morning.
Principal Shalini Agarwal of Summer Fields School confirmed, "We received the threatening email late last night and, following our standard operating procedures, evacuated all students within 10 minutes of discovering the message."
Delhi Police later identified the student responsible for the hoax. According to police, the teenager fabricated the bomb threat simply to skip school. The email also mentioned two other schools to make the threat seem more credible.
An investigation is currently ongoing to determine the full extent of the incident. This case follows a similar scare from May 2, when 131 schools across Delhi received threat emails. The Delhi Police had noted that the emails used the term 'Swaraiim,' an Arabic word associated with the Islamic State, but the Ministry of Home Affairs later confirmed that these threats were hoaxes.
"The email threats appear to be hoaxes," stated an official MHA release. "There is no cause for panic. Delhi Police and security agencies are following the appropriate protocols."
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