Bomb scare shuts Rajiv Chowk station for one hour (Lead)
January 27th, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) Entry to the bustling Rajiv Chowk Metro station was barred for an hour Thursday following a bomb scare that turned out to be a hoax.
The station, one of the busiest in the Delhi Metro network, was not evacuated after police got a telephone call at 2.51 p.m. warning that a bomb would explode soon, a Delhi Metro official told IANS.
Commuters were stopped from entering the station at 3.12 p.m. and it was thrown open to people only an hour later. However, trains continued to ply through the station, in the heart of the city, even as police combed the station complex for explosives.
The interchange facility at the station remained in use during the episode.
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