11 schools of Jalandhar on Monday received bomb threat email around 9:10 am. Hence, school administration messaged parents of students and asked them pick their children. Police officials, anti-sabotage teams also reached to schools premises and carried out searches in the school.
The affected schools declared half-day holiday and students were sent home safely. In the meantime, schools premises were searched by anti-sabotage teams and police officials.
During the afternoon press conference, Jalandhar DC Himanshu Aggarwal was asked whether there will be school holidays on Tuesday i.e. December 16 or not. At that time, DC Jalandhar said that final decision on holiday in schools will be taken by evening.
As a result, True Scoop reached out to Jalandhar DC and asked whether schools of Jalandhar will remain closed tomorrow or not. DC Himanshu Aggarwal said schools in Jalandhar will remain open tomorrow and no holiday has been declared.
An official release has been issued over the matter. Deputy Commissioner Dr. Himanshu Aggarwal and Commissioner of Police Dhanpreet Kaur on Monday urged residents not to panic following bomb threat emails sent to several schools in the city, stating that preliminary investigations have found the threats to be frivolous in nature.
Addressing the media at the District Administrative Complex here, the Deputy Commissioner said that both the civil and police administrations acted swiftly after bomb threats were received by as many as 11 schools.
As a precautionary measure, anti-sabotage teams and other security officials were immediately dispatched to the concerned schools to thoroughly check their premises. “No suspicious object or activity was detected during the comprehensive search operations,” he said, adding that school managements were already informed about the safety drill and extended full cooperation to the administration.
Commissioner of Police Dhanpreet Kaur disclosed that an FIR has been registered under the Cyber Cell to investigate the origin of the threatening emails. She said cyber teams were working to ascertain the source of VPN used to send the emails. “So far, nothing suspicious has been found, and the threats appear to be aimed at creating unnecessary panic among the public,” she said.
