Patna, February 9 An email threatening to blow up the Patna Civil Court premises was received on Monday, sending the administration into a state of panic, in the second such incident in a month.
Police personnel, who rushed to the scene to conduct searches, were tight-lipped, even as judicial work was suspended for the day, effectively putting on hold, among other things, the bail plea of Independent MP Pappu Yadav.
Yadav's lawyer, Shivnandan Bharti, told reporters, "We have been informed that a bomb threat has been received at the email address of the District Judge. As a result, the MP's bail application can only be heard tomorrow. My client will have to spend another day in jail."
Yadav, who represents the Purnea Lok Sabha seat, was arrested on Friday night in connection with a three-decade-old forgery case lodged at the MP/MLA court.
The Congress has come out in his support, with leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleging that the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar was targeting Yadav because he had been criticizing the investigation into the death of a NEET aspirant.
Notably, similar bomb threats were received by several courts in Bihar, including this one, on January 8. The emails had turned out to be a hoax.