JNTU, All India Radio station in Hyderabad get hoax bomb threats

Hyderabad: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTU-H) and the All India Radio (AIR) station in the city received bomb threats via email on Tuesday morning at around 10.30 am, triggering panic. However, both threats were later declared hoaxes.At JNTU, officials immediately alerted law enforcement authorities after receiving the email. Personnel from the local police station, along with bomb disposal squads, rushed to the campus and carried out extensive frisking, search and sanitisation operations across offices, hostels and other facilities, following standard operating procedures.The JN Auditorium was also sanitised, and students and staff were temporarily accommodated there during the operation. Police later confirmed that no suspicious objects were found. The DCP assured that those responsible for the hoax would be identified and dealt with as per the law.In a similar incident, panic prevailed at the AIR station after a threatening email claimed that 13 chemical bombs had been planted on the premises. Police teams, along with bomb disposal and dog squads, conducted thorough searches, but no explosives were found, according to the Saifabad police. Police are now trying to check whether there are any links between the two emails, as both were received around the same time.