The police vacated the District Courts and Mini-Secretariat in Panchkula on Friday after receiving an e-mail that threatened to blow up the premises. What followed was a swift sweep of the court complex and the secretariat, with the site later declared safe.
Commissioner of Police Pankaj Nain ordered an immediate security response after the threat came in, underscoring how quickly the message turned into a full-scale emergency. For people inside the court and administrative complex, the disruption was immediate: the premises were cleared before officers could carry out a search.
DCP Aditi Singh said the court complex and the secretariat were evacuated as a precautionary measure while the search was under way. A dog squad, bomb disposal team and special police teams went through the premises, but they found no suspicious object or explosive material.
That result made the threat no less serious for the police, only less certain. A bomb threat can force a shutdown even when nothing turns up, and that is exactly what happened here: a public complex was emptied, searched and then reopened only after officers were satisfied it was safe.
The next step is now in the hands of the cyber cell, which has launched an investigation to trace the source of the e-mail. The unanswered question is not whether the threat caused disruption — it did — but who sent it and why they chose a message that sent officers rushing to secure two major public facilities on Friday.
