India, Oct. 25 -- The Delhi Police on Saturday said that they had apprehended a 16-year-old Class 11 student of a private school in central Delhi for allegedly emailing a bomb threat to her own school on Friday, in an attempt to get a four-day weekend by getting classes called off. Monday is a public holiday for Valmiki Jayanti, so a closure on Friday would have given her four days off.

It is only the second time police have traced the sender of a school bomb hoax in the city since the emails began arriving in waves in 2024. As in the first, the sender was a student undone by a free virtual private network (VPN).

The threat was declared a hoax after nothing suspicious was found, two police officers aware of the matter said, asking not t...