Over a dozen colleges in the Delhi University, including the prestigious Lady Shri Ram College, Hansraj College and Ramjas College, received bomb threat e-mails on Thursday, a day after a similar threat sent alarm bells ringing in the North Block.

According to an official from Delhi Fire Service (DFS), they first received a call at 4.38 pm about the bomb threat at the LSR College and two fire tenders were pressed into service.. Other colleges also made the call to authorities thereafter.

The local police, a bomb disposal squad, and a bomb detection team arrived at the LSR College along with a dog squad and conducted searches but nothing suspicious was found yet. LSR Principal Suman Sharma informed that the entire campus has been sanitised and said, “We received the bomb threat e-mail in the afternoon today. Immediately, the police were informed and they sent a bomb (disposal) squad. The search operation went on for 2 to 3 hours and the entire campus has been sanitised.”

According to a police officer, along with LSR over a dozen other colleges in Delhi received a similar kind of threat as the sender marked them in CC of the e-mail. These colleges include Hansraj College, Gargi College, Ramjas College, Zakir Husain College, Indraprastha College For Women, Lady Irwin College, Kirori Mal College, Bhaskaracharya College, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Sri Venkateswara College, and PGDAV College.

Apart from DU colleges, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), among other state universities also received the threat. The officer said that all the college campuses are being searched but nothing suspicious has been recovered from any of them.

Over the past few weeks, bomb threat emails have been received by many establishments in the national capital, including schools and hospitals. Delhi’s Chacha Nehru Hospital received a bomb threat on April 30 while more than 150 schools got threats from a Russia-based mailing service company on May 1.