Crime

AHMEDABAD: At least 28 schools in Ahmedabad and Vadodara in Gujarat received bomb threat emails on Monday, following which the campuses were evacuated, officials said. Search operations were immediately undertaken, they said, adding that nothing suspicious has been found so far. More than 15 schools in Ahmedabad received bomb threat emails, District Education Officer Rohit Chaudhary said. “All the schools were instructed to immediately inform the nearby police stations and follow security protocol,” he told reporters. Vadodara Police Commissioner Narasimha Komar said as many as 13 schools in different localities of the city received bomb threat emails. The managements of these schools informed the police control room. Subsequently, the local police, Special Operations Group (SOG), Crime Branch and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads (BDDS) personnel carried out a sanitisation exercise and evacuation of students and teachers, he said. “Sanitisation exercise of nine schools has been completed, and the process is underway for the remaining schools. A case has been registered by the cybercrime police. A detailed investigation will be carried out to find out the source of the emails and the sender’s identity, and to thwart their attempt, ” Komar said. Prima facie, such emails are mischievous, but the police will probe them with all seriousness, he added. Vadodara’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Verma said nothing suspicious was found so far, and students from the affected schools were sent back home. The institutions that were targeted include DAV International School, Asia School, Ankur International School, Sant Kabir School in Ahmedabad, and D R Amin School, Urmi School, Baroda High School, and Don Bosco in Vadodara, according to police.

The Vadodara police on Friday arrested two men who allegedly raped a teenage girl – a minor – after luring her into a room in a busy locality in the city a day ago. Later in the day, a local court sent the two accused to police custody for three days. In the First Information Report (FIR) lodged at a police station in the city, the girl’s mother said her daughter was locked in the room for several hours. According to the complaint, the girl, who is from Uttar Pradesh, was visiting her family in Vadodara.

A chilling murder conspiracy in Gujarat’s Vadodara has come to light after a man miraculously survived an attempt on his life, allegedly orchestrated by his own wife and her lover. Police have arrested six accused, including the wife, in connection with the case. The incident took place in the Chhani area, where Girish Patel, a paan parlour owner, was abducted on April 15 while returning home. According to police, he was forcibly taken into a car on the Chhani-Sokhda Road by a group of men, threatened with a knife, and driven around multiple locations before being thrown into a canal near Sojitra.