Bengaluru, July 19: The police have managed to crack the case of bomb threat to a private school in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in South Bengaluru after tracing a boy who had sent the threatening email.
The accused is a student studying in the same school, who was not prepared for the upcoming class 10 exams, the police said.
The police traced the boy late in the night on Monday with the help of the IP address. A senior officer said the boy is studying in class 10 in the school.
Laxman B Nimbargi, deputy commissioner of police (West) said, "The school case has been detected, the boy had sent the email to postpone the exam. Since the boy is minor, we cannot share more details about him in the case."
The school management had noticed the email around 8.30 am on Monday and had alerted the police.
A bomb disposal team, a sniffer dog team, and jurisdiction police were called and rushed to the spot. The police evacuated over 1,500 students as a preventative measure. The students and staff members were moved safely to another part of the campus.
After a thorough check the police declared the email as a hoax.
First semester examination for the class 10 students were going to begin from July 21. The boy was not prepared for the examination, and so he decided to send the threatening email, assuming that the management will declare holiday for at least two to three days. He created a new email ID to send the email and used the laptop of his parents.
Both the parents of the boy and the school management were shocked after learning that the boy chose such a step to avoid the examination.
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