India, June 16 -- Chandigarh An illegal Bangladeshi migrant has been arrested for making hoax bomb threats targeting city schools and the Punjab Civil Secretariat in January this year, police said on Monday. The accused, Saurav Biswas (30), is the first person to be arrested in connection with the recent string of such incidents. Majority of the cases are still unsolved.

Emails citing a bomb threat were sent via email to Tender Heart School in Sector 33, Government Model Senior Secondary School (GMSSS), Sector 16, GMSSS, Sector 35, and GMSSS, Sector 19, on January 28. The Sector 17 police station had registered the case under Sections 113(3) (terrorist acts), 62 (attempt to commit offences) and 351(4) (criminal intimidation) of the Bhara...