Hoax call sets alarm in Kolkata
September 25th, 2008 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, Sep 25 (IANS) A hoax phone call about a possible bomb planted at the Calcutta High Court Thursday set the police on alert.”The city police control room received an anonymous phone call Thursday evening saying that a bomb has been kept at the Calcutta High Court and it’s going to explode soon. We sent our forces at once but did not find anything suspicious,” police deputy commissioner (headquarters) Vinet K. Goyal said.
“The caller could not be traced as the call came from one of the seven coin-booths at Kiran Shankar Road near the court in central Kolkata,” Goyal added.
Police personnel along with sniffer dogs were sent to the court area, which was vacated. After about two hours of search, no bomb was traced.
Security has been tightened in the city from Wednesday after a newspaper office here received an email threatening to blow up vital installations in the West Bengal capital with human bombs.
According to police sources, the email sent in the name of Indian Mujahideen to the Ananda Bazar Patrika office Tuesday evening said there would be 11 bomb blasts, including at the airport, popular hotels at Park Street in south Kolkata and government and private hospitals.
- Businessman held for making bomb hoax call - May 16, 2011
- Boy's prank call sends Bangalore police into tizzy - Jun 13, 2010
- Anonymous caller threatens to kill PM, Vajpayee - May 04, 2011
- Bomb scare at Taj Mahal - Jan 04, 2012
- Chandigarh multiplex vacated after bomb threat - Jan 11, 2011
- Fourth email on Delhi blast surfaces - Sep 09, 2011
- Delhi Bomb Scare Creates Panic - Sep 08, 2009
- Security tightened in Kolkata after threat mail - Sep 24, 2008
- Hoax bomb calls over India-Pakistan match venue - Mar 27, 2011
- Man thinks moon is UFO, calls emergency - Oct 29, 2011
- Hoax bomb call at Mumbai court - Apr 17, 2010
- Hoax bomb call at Ashok Hotel - Jul 16, 2009
- Two hoax bomb calls create panic in Kolkata - Nov 27, 2008
- Hoax call to blow up Delhi Police headquarters - Nov 06, 2011
- Moscow rail terminal briefly evacuated over hoax bomb threat - Dec 17, 2010
Tags: ananda bazar patrika, anonymous phone call, bomb blasts, calcutta high court, goyal, newspaper office, police sources, private hospitals, sniffer dogs, west bengal
