For a second day in a row, the Delhi Legislative Assembly received a bomb threat e-mail in the wee hours of Wednesday, which was later declared a hoax.
Teams from the police, bomb detection squad, and dog squad frisked the premises but found nothing suspicious, an officer said. (Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times)
The e-mail was received by the Speaker’s officer on special duty (OSD) around 2am, an officer said.
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Teams from the police, bomb detection squad, and dog squad frisked the premises but found nothing suspicious, an officer said.
The officer said the e-mail mentioned the names of a few politicians and cases against them.
The Delhi Legislative Assembly office, the Speaker Vijender Gupta’s office, and the Vidhan Sabha metro station office received hoax bomb threat e-mails on Tuesday morning, just hours before chief minister Rekha Gupta was slated to present the Delhi budget.
Jignasa Sinha is a Special Correspondent at Hindustan Times in New Delhi. With more than six years of reporting experience, she covers crime and policing in the national capital. Her beats also include Delhi prisons, the Delhi Fire Services and Delhi courts, while she regularly reports on gender, labour and social justice. Over the course of her career, Jignasa has reported on major criminal investigations, international crime syndicates, high-profile cyber fraud cases, law-and-order developments, protests, disasters and public institutions. Her reporting combines breaking news with in-depth, long form, human interest stories that examine the human impact of public policy, policing and the criminal justice system. In addition to reporting for the newspaper, she contributes to the Hindustan Times website and app, and plays an active role in coordinating on-ground coverage of major developments and breaking news across Delhi. Before joining Hindustan Times, Jignasa worked at The Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi, where she spent five years covering crime, Delhi airport, courts and health. She began her journalism career as an intern at an AI magazine in Bengaluru while pursuing her postgraduate diploma in multimedia journalism at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media.
