Safety businesses have been placed on excessive alert after receiving an e-mail menace from Kerala claiming that the Taj Mahal could be blown up utilizing RDX.
A excessive alert was sounded after an e-mail threatening to explode the Taj Mahal with RDX was obtained from Kerala. Following the menace, safety businesses have moved into alert mode and intensified surveillance in and across the monument.
Bomb menace sparks intense 3-hour safety sweep
As quickly as the e-mail was obtained, a large safety operation was launched. The Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF), Taj Safety Police, Bomb Disposal Squad, Canine Squad, Tourism Police, and officers from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) completely searched the Taj Mahal premises for almost three hours.
The search coated areas together with the principle dome, jasmine ground, mosque, gardens, and corridors. Regardless of the extraordinary sweep, no suspicious objects have been discovered.
Safety tightened, vacationers not even allowed to hold a pen
The menace mail was despatched to the Uttar Pradesh Tourism Division and Delhi Police on Saturday morning from an unidentified mail ID named ‘Savvaku Shanka’, claiming that the “Taj Mahal could be blown up with RDX (Royal Demolition Explosive) by 3:30 pm.”
As a precaution, safety was heightened at each the japanese and western gates of the Taj Mahal. Restrictions have been additionally imposed on vacationers, together with a ban on carrying pens, and all guests have been carefully monitored through 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 brought about a short lived panic, however the absence of any precise menace introduced reduction to the safety businesses.
(Enter: Ankur Kumar)
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