Ahmedabad, March 10 A private university based in Vadodara was evacuated on Tuesday following a bomb threat email, while similar online messages were also received by multiple passport and post offices across Gujarat, but no suspicious devices were found during searches, police said.
All bomb threat emails later turned out to be a hoax, they said.
The Parul University in Vadodara received a bomb threat email, prompting the evacuation of the entire campus in the morning, police said.
Around 10 am, police reached the university along with a Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS), dog squad, Local Crime Branch, and Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel, and launched an extensive search of the sprawling premises, but nothing suspicious was found, an official from the Vaghodia police station said.
The university has a total student population exceeding 65,000, including over 5,500 international students from more than 75 countries, according to its official website.
Moreover, post and passport offices in Ahmedabad, Surat, and Rajkot also received bomb threat emails.
Ahmedabad’s University area Police Inspector SR Bawa confirmed that security checks were carried out at the Regional Passport Office (RPO) located in the Gulbai Tekra area followed by a bomb threat, but nothing suspicious was found.
The Surat RPO also received a similar email.
"An email was received at 8:45 am at the Regional Passport Office in Surat from [email protected] of ‘Madras Tigers, Coimbatore’. The email demanded the evacuation of the passport office by 1:10 pm or it will be bombed via an IED blast with five cyanide containers," ACP V R Malhotra told