<p>Various institutions across Mumbai, including the headquarters of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), prominent hospitals and a college, have received <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-bound-indigo-flight-receives-bomb-threat-message-lands-safely-23354804" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">bomb threat emails</a>, following which searches were carried out although nothing suspicious was found in them.</p>
<p>A police official told PTI that the bomb threat emails were received on Monday and Tuesday from a single mail ID.</p>
<p>"The emails received on Tuesday were similar to those received on Monday, which said that there was a bomb threat to prominent private, state and <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/several-airports-across-india-receive-hoax-bomb-threats-23354697" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">civic-run hospitals</a> and colleges across the city," he told PTI.</p>
<p>According to Mumbai police, the sender claimed that bombs were planted under beds and in the bathrooms of the hospitals, reported ANI.</p>
<p>The hospitals that received the threat mail include <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/bomb-hoax-email-sent-to-40-airports-23354754" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Jaslok Hospital</a>, Raheja Hospital, Seven Hill Hospital, Kohinoor Hospital, KEM Hospital, JJ Hospital, and St George Hospital, among others in Mumbai, reported ANI.</p>
<p>The police official said that as an investigation was underway, similar bomb threat emails were received by the BMC and other establishments.</p>
<p>According to the police, the unknown person "threatened to blow up" the BMC headquarters.</p>
<p>Following the threat email, the police searched the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/teen-behind-hoax-bomb-threat-being-counselled-23354590" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">BMC headquarters</a> and said that they did not find "anything suspicious." The officials said that security has been heightened following the threat.</p>
<p>Further investigation is underway, they added.</p>
<p>During the probe, the Mumbai police conducted security checks of those establishments and later it came to light that somebody played a mischief as nothing suspicious was found at all these places, the police official said.</p>
<p>He further said that the process to register a case against unidentified persons is underway at the Azad Maidan police station, reported PTI.</p>
<p>Hinduja College of Commerce in Mumbai also received a bomb threat email earlier in the day, according to the police, reported ANI.</p>
<p>A team of police and a bomb squad searched the premises following the threat mail but nothing suspicious. Mumbai's VP Road Police Station was looking into the matter, reported ANI.</p>
<p><strong>(With inputs from PTI and ANI)</strong></p><p>
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