Police have started a suo motu case against unknown persons for sending emails to several city schools allegedly threatening to carry out explosions in classrooms.
At least two schools confirmed to Metro on Monday that they had received the email about a bomb threat on the campus.
“We received an email about a bomb threat and informed the local police about it. A police squad came after the children went back home to run a check in the school as a precautionary measure,” said the principal of a school in south Calcutta.
The school had initially called the local police and then sent a physical copy of the email they had received with a note attached to it mentioning that they had received the email.
Teams from the police stations where the schools that received the email are located visited the campuses and carried out search operations.
Nothing suspicious was found, the police said.
The police told the schools to inform them if anything suspicious was found on the campus.
According to sources, the email that was simultaneously sent to around two dozen schools in the city declared that there were “bombs planted inside the classrooms”.
“The bombs are set to go off tomorrow morning, when there are kids inside of the school. Our mission is to leave as many people as possible in a pool of blood. This Attack is caused by 2 Terrorists named Ching and Doll,” the email read.
A case has been drawn under sections of the Information Technology
Act, knowingly furnishing false information to public servants and criminal
intimidation by anonymous communication, the police said.
Efforts were being made to track details of the IP (Internet Protocol) address from where the email had been sent, a police officer said.
A few weeks ago, a few schools in Chennai and Bengaluru received almost similar threat emails, creating panic across educational institutes.
Those emails had turned out to be hoaxes.
A source in the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar said the police are probing if those emails were related to the emails sent to the Calcutta schools.
No one was arrested in connection with this case till late on Monday.
