India, Feb. 24 -- At least six district courts in West Bengal, including two in Kolkata, had to be vacated and searched on Tuesday afternoon following bomb scare triggered by e-mails, police said.

Sniffer dogs and bomb disposal squad personnel were sent to the City Civil and Sessions Court and the Bankshall Court in central Kolkata after an e-mail received by a court office claimed that bombs were planted inside the premises. The search yielded no result.

Similar incidents happened at the Chinsurah court in Hooghly district, the Asansol and Durgapur courts in West Burdwan district and the Berhampore court in Murshidabad district.

All the incidents happened simultaneously hours after the Supreme Court said on Tuesday morning that judici...