New Delhi/Noida, May 2 -- In a scare of unprecedented scale, panic gripped schools in the national Capital and adjoining Noida after 131 of them received identical bomb threats through emails on Wednesday morning, triggering mass evacuations and massive searches as panicked parents rushed to pick up their children.

The anti-terror unit of the Delhi Police has started investigations into the bomb threat email sent to schools in the Delhi-NCR region, as the initial probe hinted at a deeper conspiracy by a terror group during the Lok Sabha elections.

The schools received the threats on their official email IDs around 4 am. Bomb detection teams, bomb disposal squads and officials of Delhi Fire Service were rushed to schools but nothing susp...