Noida, Feb. 6 -- Four private schools in Noida received bomb threat emails on Wednesday morning, senior police officers said, adding that after a thorough search of schools' premises, these mails were declared hoaxes.

By late Wednesday night, police apprehended a 14-year-old boy, a class 9 student of one of the four schools, and said it was he who allegedly sent the mails as he wanted to skip school.

"On Wednesday, around 6.45am, we were alerted that that four private schools-Step by Step, The Heritage, Gyanshree, and Mayoor School-had received bomb threat emails," said Ram Badan Singh, Noida deputy commissioner of police.

"A team comprising police, firefighters, bomb detection teams, and dog squads, were dispatched. They checked the p...