India, Aug. 14 -- The Delhi High Court, Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and three government offices received hoax bomb threat e-mails on Friday morning, triggering panic and prompting multiple security checks a day ahead of Independence Day.

Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said that the Delhi Cantonment Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) office received a bomb threat e-mail at 11.18am, followed by IGI T-3 at 11.32am.

Jamnagar House received a threat e-mail at 11.40am and the Saket SDM office at 11.42am. The DFS also received information regarding an e-mail bomb threat at a building in Jhandewalan at 11.57am, an official said.

The official said following the alerts, bomb disposal squads, sniffer dog teams and DFS personn...