Gurugram: Over a dozen schools receive bomb threats, students sent home

Majority of the schools were evacuated to follow the standard operating procedures and the students were sent home.

Updated on: Mar 10, 2026, 10:22:39 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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Gurugram: More than a dozen private schools in the city received bomb threat emails on Tuesday morning, said Gurugram district administration officials.

Majority of the schools were evacuated to follow the standard operating procedures and the students were sent home.

A senior district administration official said prominent schools located on Golf Course Road, Sector-14 and several other places received emailed threats in the morning.

“All these premises were sanitised after carrying out evacuation process. Till now, we have received information from at least 12 schools about threat email. We are contacting other school to ascertain the exact count,” he said.

Sandeep Turan, Gurugram police's public relations officer, said police teams along with bomb detection and disposal squads were pressed into action to sanitise the school premises. “Investigation is going on in the case,” he added.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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