Chandigarh, March 2 The regional passport office in Chandigarh received a bomb threat email on Monday, prompting authorities to conduct anti-sabotage checks after evacuating staff and applicants, police said.
Nothing suspicious was found during the operation, they said.
After receiving information about the threat email, police and fire brigade personnel, bomb and dog squads, and an ambulance were rushed to the passport office, the police said.
Staff and passport applicants were evacuated, and extensive anti-sabotage checks were carried out.
Earlier in the day, two schools in Jalandhar, Punjab, also received bomb threat emails. However, it turned out to be a hoax.
The latest scare comes after similar bomb hoaxes in Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala, and Haryana schools.
On February 27, several schools in Chandigarh had also received similar bomb threat emails. On February 19, the Punjab Civil Secretariat received a bomb threat email, but no suspicious material was found.
