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Delhi Police nab man behind 1,100 bomb threats targeting government offices, schools
Srinivas Louis, 47, admitted having sent 1,100 threat messages, mostly through email. Police said they had to take threats seriously to boost security
- PUBLISHED: Mon 30 Mar 2026, 1:26 PM
Delhi Police arrested a 47-year-old man for allegedly sending more than 1,100 hoax bomb threats to institutions across the country, triggering panic.
Authorities took into custody Srinivas Louis, 47, originally from Bengaluru, and living in a rented house with his mother in Mysuru. The Delhi police, which has been tracking the 1,100 hoax threat messages he has sent of late, arrested him from Mysuru over the weekend.
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A postgraduate, Srinivas is unemployed. He sent messages targeting government offices, courts and schools across the country.
The Delhi police began a coordinated operation after it came across bomb threats to the high court, the assembly and several education institutes in the national capital.
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Authorities had to take these threats seriously and had to immediately boost security around these institutions, inconveniencing thousands of people. The police suspected that the person threatening the institutions aimed to cause maximum panic across the country. They also suspected him of suffering from mental problems.
A Delhi police official confirmed to the media that Srinivas admitted having sent 1,100 threat messages, mostly through email. “The threats were transmitted via email. Cases have been registered across several states. Preliminary investigations suggest that the individual's mental state is unstable,” added the official.
Srinivas was presented before a Mysuru court and taken into custody. He will be produced before a court in Delhi.
Earlier this month, Mumbai police received a mail warning of attacks that would blow up the state legislature, the Bombay high court, the Bombay stock exchange and banks. The police had to deploy personnel including the bomb detection and disposal squad, police dogs, block roads and approaches to the institutions, which caused massive snarls in the city. Fortunately, as in most cases, the threats proved to be false.
Earlier in March, the Gujarat police arrested a 28-year-old man in Mumbai after he was found to have sent emails to the officials, warning of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, and Punjab. The cyber police of Ahmedabad traced him to Mumbai and a team nabbed him from a western suburb.
