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Security corporations have been positioned on extreme alert after receiving an e mail menace from Kerala claiming that the Taj Mahal might be blown up using RDX.
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A extreme alert was sounded after an e mail threatening to blow up the Taj Mahal with RDX was obtained from Kerala. Following the menace, security corporations have moved into alert mode and intensified surveillance in and throughout the monument.
Bomb menace sparks intense 3-hour security sweep
As shortly because the e-mail was obtained, a big security operation was launched. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Taj Security Police, Bomb Disposal Squad, Dog Squad, Tourism Police, and officers from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) completely searched the Taj Mahal premises for virtually three hours.
The search lined areas along with the first dome, jasmine floor, mosque, gardens, and corridors. Despite the extraordinary sweep, no suspicious objects have been found.
(Image Source : -)Security forces wanting premises of the Taj Mahal
Security tightened, vacationers not even allowed to carry a pen
The menace mail was despatched to the Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department and Delhi Police on Saturday morning from an unidentified mail ID named ‘Savvaku Shanka’, claiming that the “Taj Mahal would be blown up with RDX (Royal Demolition Explosive) by 3:30 pm.”
As a precaution, security was heightened at every the jap and western gates of the Taj Mahal. Restrictions have been moreover imposed on vacationers, along with a ban on carrying pens, and all friends have been fastidiously monitored by CCTV.
Preliminary investigation suggests the e-mail was a hoax. A case has been registered on the Cyber Cell Police Station, which is now conducting an in depth probe into the origin and intent behind the e-mail.
The incident precipitated a brief lived panic, nevertheless the absence of any exact menace launched discount to the security corporations.
(Input: Ankur Kumar)
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