BENGALURU, 22 APRIL 

Panic gripped RV College of Engineering (RVCE) and Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath on Tuesday after both institutions received hoax bomb threat emails late Monday night. The emails, sent from the ID sindaarrajput@gmail.com, warned: “Save ur students and principal life from bomb blast.”

Staff discovered the threatening messages while checking routine communication early Tuesday morning and alerted the authorities. Bomb disposal squads and sniffer dogs were swiftly deployed to both campuses, and students and staff were safely evacuated. After thorough searches, police confirmed the threats were false alarms.

FIRs have been registered at Kengeri and Sheshadripuram police stations. Cybercrime teams have joined the probe to trace the source of the email and check for connections to previous hoax threats. Bengaluru has seen a series of such incidents in recent years. In April 2022 and again in2023, dozens of schools received similar bomb threat emails. In 2024, the Visvesvaraya Museum and Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium were targeted.

Police are also revisiting a 2016 case in which two MTech students were arrested for sending bomb threats to RVCE in an extortion bid, suspecting a similar or copycat motive in the latest incident.