Bengaluru, June 29 -- Chamarajanagar and Haveri district courts in Karnataka received fresh hoax bomb threat emails on Monday, triggering evacuations, extensive searches by bomb disposal and dog squads, and disruption of court proceedings.
Police said the email, allegedly sent in the name of one "Ambunathan Ariyappan" through the dark web, claimed that chemical bombs had been planted at the Israeli Consulate in Bengaluru and at the Chamarajanagar district court, warning that the explosives would detonate at 1 pm.
Following the alert, police evacuated court premises in Chamarajanagar and Haveri while bomb detection and disposal squads carried out thorough searches. No explosives were found, and authorities later declared the threat a hoax....