Chandigarh, Feb. 20 -- It was yet another day of panic, mass evacuations and security beef-up as the Punjab secretariat in Sector 1 and district courts complex in Sector 43, Chandigarh, received bomb threat emails on Thursday, in what was the second such hoax this week, and the seventh instance in less than a month. The mails mentioned Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann to be their target.

Just two days ago, over 16 Mohali schools and the Fortis Hospital, where CM Mann was then admitted, had received bomb threats. Similar mails were sent to Mohali schools on February 11, Punjab and Haryana high court and Panchkula district court on February 9, Chandigarh district courts on February 6, the secretariat buildings in Chandigarh on January 2...