Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 22 (ANI): The Gauhati High Court in Assam’s capital city, received a bomb threat via email on Tuesday, officials said adding that it turned out to be a hoax.
A senior police official of the Guwahati city police told ANI that the threat was received via email from an anonymous account.
Following the threat, security personnel rushed to the high court and conducted a search operation.
“It is a bomb hoax. The threat was received via email,” the senior police official said.
Ankur Jain, Joint Police Commissioner, Guwahati, told ANI that “It’s a hoax only. Nothing found.”
Meanwhile, security has been heightened in the court premises.
More details are awaited.
Earlier on April 18, a bomb threat call received at Chakeri Airport in Kanpur afternoon was found to be a hoax, and the caller was apprehended within hours, police officials confirmed.
“Around 12:30 PM, the CISF was contacted by an unknown caller saying that a bomb had been placed in a 72-seater plane (at Chakeri Airport). The CISF informed the Chakeri PS,” said ACP of Kanpur Police Commissionerate, Sumit Sudhakar Ramteke.
Following the alert, Chakeri Police Station and the surveillance team began investigations immediately.
“The Chakeri PS team and a surveillance team started working on this matter immediately and caught the caller around 3 PM,” the ACP said.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the call was a false alarm made as a prank. (ANI)