Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi

New Delhi, Mar 30: Delhi police have arrested a 47-year-old man from Mysuru for allegedly sending more than 1,100 hoax bomb threat messages to schools, hospitals, High Courts and government offices across India, officials said on Monday. The accused has been identified as Srinivas Louis.

Police said Louis, a postgraduate and a native of Bengaluru, is currently unemployed and lives with his mother, a retired government employee.

The arrest comes amid a recent surge in bomb threat messages targeting the Delhi High Court, the assembly, and several educational institutions and government offices across the national capital.

According to Delhi police, Louis was apprehended from his rented accommodation in Mysuru on Saturday following a joint operation by Delhi police and local police teams.

Over the past few months, the accused allegedly made hundreds of calls and sent numerous emails, repeatedly threatening to blow up key establishments. After the threats surfaced, police registered a case and launched an investigation, which eventually traced the origin to Srinivas in Karnataka.

“Preliminary investigation suggests that he may have been under mental stress. During initial interrogation, the accused confessed to sending over 1,100 threat messages across the country via emails and other communication platforms,” a senior police officer said.

Police are now bringing him to Delhi, where he will be taken into custody on remand and further interrogated to ascertain whether he issued similar threats in other locations.

Officials added that multiple FIRs have been registered in different states in connection with the threats.