A 47-year-old unemployed postgraduate living with his retired government employee mother sent 1,100+ hoax bomb threats to schools, hospitals, high courts, and government offices across India. Each one triggered full evacuations, bomb disposal squads, and security lockdowns — India's emergency response infrastructure was essentially being stress-tested by one man with a Gmail account and too much free time.
Srinivas Louis, a 47-year-old postgraduate from Bengaluru currently unemployed and living with his retired government employee mother in rented accommodation in Mysuru, has been arrested by Delhi Police for sending over 1,100 hoax bomb threat messages to schools, hospitals, high courts, and government offices across the country. Each alert triggered high-level security checks, evacuations, and bomb disposal operations — all of which turned out to be fake. Preliminary investigation suggests he was under "mental stress," which apparently manifested as the world's most prolific one-man terrorism cosplay operation. The entire security apparatus of multiple states was activated repeatedly by a single unemployed man sending emails from his mother's house. India's counter-terrorism capabilities have officially been benchmarked against a bored postgraduate.