{"id":192190,"date":"2026-01-09T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=192190"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:58:34","slug":"germany-austria-origin-bomb-threat-emails-set-off-panic-in-indian-punjab-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/01\/09\/germany-austria-origin-bomb-threat-emails-set-off-panic-in-indian-punjab-courts.html","title":{"rendered":"Germany, Austria-origin bomb threat emails set off panic in Indian Punjab courts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chandigarh: Bomb threat emails disrupted work for several hours at district courts across Punjab in India.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, district courts in Ludhiana, Ropar, Ferozepur, Mansa and Moga received the threatening emails. The judicial complexes were evacuated and bomb squads were deployed to conduct extensive searches, but no explosives were found.<\/p>\n

The people gather outside the Ropar judicial complex following a bomb threat.<\/p>\n

The Anandpur Sahib judicial complex was also evacuated as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n

Police investigations traced the emails to Austria and Germany, with the senders using the Tor network and VPN services to mask their identities, Special DGP (Cybercrime) V Neerja said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have written to the authorities to take up further investigations with the two countries,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Panic gripped the Ludhiana District Courts after a threat was received on the Sessions Division\u2019s official email ID, forcing judges to vacate courtrooms and halting proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chandigarh: Bomb threat emails disrupted work for several hours at district courts across Punjab in India. According to Kashmir Media Service, district courts in Ludhiana, Ropar, Ferozepur, Mansa and Moga received the threatening emails. The judicial complexes were evacuated and bomb squads were deployed to conduct extensive searches, but no explosives were found. The people …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-192190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/bomb-truth.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192192,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192190\/revisions\/192192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}