New Delhi:

Over 50 schools in Delhi and the National Capital Region have sent students home early today after receiving a bomb threat over email. Some other schools, which did not receive a threat mail have also decided to shut early as a precautionary measure.

The schools started receiving the threat emails as early as 4 am today. The bomb detection team, bomb disposal squad, and officials of Delhi Fire Service have been rushed to the schools.

Several other schools have also requested parents to come and pick up students early as a precautionary measure.

“The school has received no threat but as a matter of caution, we are sending students of pre-primary at 10.40 am and primary and senior school at 12 noon. Kindly be at the bus stop accordingly,” Father Agnel School informed parents in a message.

Mother Mary School at Mayur Vihar, Delhi Public School at Dwarka, Sanskriti School in Chanakyapuri, Delhi Public School at Vasant Kunj, and Amity School in Saket were among the first ones to receive the threat. Since then, over 60 more schools have received a similar mail and it is suspected that one person was behind it all.

Security agencies, including the Delhi Police Special Cell, are trying to find the source of the email.

“The emails lack a date line but include ‘bcc’, indicating they’ve been sent to multiple recipients. This is a mischief, a mail has been sent to all the schools on such a large scale to spread panic. The cyber cell unit is also trying to trace the email and IP address,” police said.

The search teams on the ground have not found anything suspicious at any of the schools yet. Police have urged parents to not panic, as all appropriate measures are being taken.

“I request parents not to panic, as nothing suspicious has been found yet,” Delhi Police spokesperson Suman Nalwa told NDTV.

New Delhi:

At least seven school children and the driver of the van in which they were travelling were injured after a school bus rammed into it in southwest Delhi on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

The injured were taken to a hospital, where the children were discharged after treatment for minor bruises. The van driver is recuperating in the hospital, police said.

The accident took place at Basantara Line near Kendriya Vidyalaya.

The school bus belonged to St Thomas School in Dwarka and the Eeco van was carrying the children from Kendriya Vidyalaya Number 1. All children were below seven years of their age.

“Both the vehicles had a head-on collision. It is suspected that the bus was moving on the wrong side due to which the accident took place. A case under the relevant section of the IPC has been registered and investigation is underway,” a police officer said.

Naveen Kumar, the 25-year-old school bus driver who had fled from the spot, was later arrested.

Parents of students later took them to other hospitals for medical examination, said police.

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New Delhi:

A teacher has been booked for allegedly making pejorative remarks against a particular community in the classroom in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar, police said on Monday.

They said the remarks were made last week.

“The incident took place last week. We received a complaint and registered a case against the teacher. The investigation into the matter is underway,” a senior police officer said.

Reacting to the matter, Gandhi Nagar MLA Anil Kumar Bajpai said a teacher’s responsibility is to give good education to kids.

“This is absolutely wrong. The responsibility of a teacher is to give good education to the children. The teacher should not pass derogatory comments against any religious or holy place. Such people should be arrested,” he said.

This comes close on the heels of a similar incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar where a viral video showed a school teacher asking her students to slap a boy from a minority community and also passing objectionable remarks against the community.

The teacher, Tripta Tyagi, was booked on the complaint of the boy’s family under IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) — both non-cognisable offences.

Such offences are bailable and do not lead to immediate arrest, and require a warrant.

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