India, July 31 -- The deputy commissioner (DC) office, Haryana courts and a few schools received a bomb threat mail on Friday which later turned out to be a hoax, officials said.

Following the email threat, police deployed bomb disposal squads and dog squads to the mini secretariat. Thorough searches were conducted and no suspicious object was found, officials said.

Sandeep Turan, Gurugram police spokesperson, said the threat email was received around 8:20am on Friday.

"Police teams were immediately deployed to all the locations; evacuation and search operations are underway, and the investigation is ongoing," he said.

"While these threats were declared a hoax, the threats are still being assessed, and the investigation is still ongoi...