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Bengaluru: A hoax call received by Bengaluru Police from an unidentified caller about a bomb threat in the Karnataka Raj Bhavan on Monday night. After receiving this information, Police reached on the spot. Police immediately dispatched a bomb squad to search the premises, but nothing was found.
The police declared the call a hoax after a thorough anti-sabotage check. They have begun a probe to trace the caller. Police said that they will lodge a case and conduct searches again. According to police, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) control room in Domlur received a call from an unknown number around 12am at midnight.
The caller informed the NIA control room staff that a bomb was placed at the premises of Raj Bhavan and it may go off any time. After the investigation, police said, “This was a hoax call. We’ll lodge an FIR. We got a call yesterday at midnight from an unknown number to our control room saying they’ve kept a bomb in Raj Bhavan. We will conduct another search today.”
Recently bomb threats to schools in Bengaluru through email had created panic among students and parents. Even before a break-through in the case another hoax has posed a challenge to the police department. The first wave of threats targeted seven schools, including Napel and Vidyashilpa in Basaveshwar Nagar. One of the schools threatened is situated opposite the residence of Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister, DK Shivakumar.
