New Delhi: A shocking twist has emerged in the ongoing investigation into a spate of bomb threats targeting Delhi schools. Delhi Police’s Special Cell revealed that at least two schools in Rohini received threatening emails not from external actors, but from their own students, motivated not by malice, but by a desperate attempt to postpone exams due to inadequate preparation.
“After investigation by the Special Cell of Delhi Police, it was found that the emails were sent to both schools by two different students of the same school,” Delhi police said in a statement.
The police statement confirmed that two different students, both from the same school (although separate schools received the threats), sent the emails. Their goal was to halt the exams because they felt unprepared. After counselling, both students were released.”Both students had sent this email to stop the exam because they were not prepared for the exam paper. Since both of them were students, they were counselled and then let off,” police added.
One of the targeted schools was Venkateshwar Global School, which received a threatening email just a day after a mysterious explosion at the Rohini Prashant Vihar PVR Multiplex on November 28th. Another Rohini school was targeted for the same reason by a student wanting a school closure to avoid an exam.
During counselling sessions, both students confessed to their actions, leading to warnings being issued to their parents. They admitted that they were inspired by previous bomb threat incidents targeting educational institutions. The schools, following standard procedure, conducted thorough searches that ultimately proved the threats to be hoaxes.
This unexpected revelation comes amid a larger investigation into a series of bomb threats targeting over 100 Delhi schools in the past 11 days. The use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) by the perpetrators has complicated the police’s efforts to track them down.
This isn’t an isolated incident; Delhi has experienced a surge in bomb threats since May, with over 50 emails targeting various locations, including schools, hospitals, airports, and airlines. Police investigations into these earlier threats have yet to yield significant results.
