Two days after an IED blast outside the Punjab Frontier headquarters of the Border Security Force (BSF) jolted the city, the Jalandhar police evacuated the BSF Senior Secondary School located inside the complex before school dispersal on Thursday morning.
The parents were asked to pick their children by midday break. The school teachers said they had instructions from the management to relieve the children early.
Meanwhile, the branches of Apeejay Schools in Jalandhar had also received threat emails this morning. While the parents of junior wing students, who usually arrive late, were informed not to send their wards to school today, the parents of students of senior classes, who had already arrived, were asked to take home their children.
ADCP-1 Akarshi Jain said threat emails had been received by eight to nine schools across the city. “We conducted checks and took all precautionary measures. There is no cause for panic. The police did not ask schools to evacuate their campuses; the decisions were taken by the school managements themselves,” she said.
A high alert has been in place in the city since the blast. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was at his official residence in Old Baradari since Wednesday evening and later left in a convoy for Adampur and Kartarpur.
