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Classes were disrupted crossed respective schools successful Ahmedabad connected Friday (January 23, 2026) aft anonymous emails informing of weaponry blasts were received by aggregate acquisition institutions, prompting exigency searches by constabulary and weaponry disposal teams. Officials aboriginal confirmed that each the threats were hoaxes.
Police said adjacent to a twelve schools received the emails during the greeting hours, triggering precautionary closures and evacuation of students arsenic information agencies carried retired elaborate inspections of the premises. No suspicious objects were recovered astatine immoderate of the locations.
Among the schools that received the emails were Delhi Public School, Army School, and Mahatma Gandhi International School. The messages reportedly warned schools against hoisting the nationalist emblem connected Republic Day and contained references to ‘Khalistan,’ portion naming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah arsenic ‘enemies of Khalistan.’
According to police, weaponry detection and disposal squads were deployed to each affected institutions. “Extensive searches were conducted and the threats were recovered to beryllium hoaxes,” they said.
The emails created panic among schoolhouse authorities and parents, with schools informing constabulary instantly and sending students location arsenic a precautionary measure. Several parents rushed to campuses to prime up their children amid the uncertainty.
Parents angered
Police said the metropolis cybercrime subdivision volition registry a lawsuit and analyse the root of the emails. According to officials, the messages mentioned a circumstantial clip that is 1.11 p.m. for the alleged blast. “Modi-Shah are enemies of Khalistan... Save your children. Do not rise the Indian ‘tiranga’ successful schools connected January 26. Khalistan-Bangladesh zindabad,” the email said.
Parents expressed choler implicit the repeated hoax threats targeting schools successful the city.
