India, Nov. 3 -- Several district and sessions courts across Maharashtra, including courts in Thane and Pune, received emails threatening bomb blasts on their premises on Monday, triggering a security scare and police searches. Police officials said that nothing suspicious was found on the premises after thorough searches by the bomb detection and disposal squads (BDDS).

Balasaheb Patil, DCP, Zone 1, told HT, "The Thane sessions court registrar received an email at 9.43 am. However, the local police were informed about it only at 12 noon. We immediately rushed 12 teams, including two BDDS teams, to the court. The sender of the email had threatened to blow up the court premises at 3.11 pm." The building was evacuated and declared out of b...