Updated on Jan 6, at 1 p.m.

Authorities in Ahmedabad breathed a sigh of relief as the threat at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial and Calico Museum on Jan 5 proved to be a hoax.

The Shahibag police are investigating the person behind the bomb scare email.

Both museums in Ahmedabad received the threat email at the same time, and cyber expert teams are investigating the matter, informed Neeraj Kumar Badgujar, additional commissioner of police of the city crime branch.

With the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit around the corner, police and national agencies have beefed up security after the email threat incident.

Updated on Jan 5, at 2.15 p.m.

The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial in the Shahibag area of Ahmedabad received a bomb threat. The office of the memorial received an email threatening to detonate the Sardar memorial with explosives.

Immediately after that, the bomb squad and SOG team reached the spot. Currently, a school programme at the memorial has been cancelled, and the students have been dismissed before the programme.

Valsad’s science centre in the list

The District Science Centre at Dharampur in Valsad has also received bomb threats via email. The bomb squad is carrying out a check on the premises of the science centre and surrounding areas. Police checking has also started on the roads in Dharampur.

In a coincidence, a museum in Kolkata also received a bomb threat.

Kolkata police and personnel from the bomb squad took possession of the premises of the iconic Indian Museum in central Kolkata following a bomb threat message received by the museum authorities today.

The bomb threat was sent through an email to the museum authorities, where it was said that “any possibility might lead to the casualties of several innocent people.”

The museum authorities immediately informed the city police headquarters.

As per the latest information available, a police contingent has cordoned off the entire museum premises, and the sleuths of the bomb squad were searching each and every room within the premises to detect the existence of any explosive item.

The employees of the museum and the visitors were brought out of the premises before the bomb squad sleuths went in. A notice has been issued by the museum authorities announcing a ban on the entry of visitors for a reasonable amount of time.

An investigation has also started regarding the sources of the email through which the bomb alert was sent, a city police official said.

In August 2022, a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan posted on security duty for the museum fired indiscriminately from his service AK-47 rifle, killing one of his colleagues in the force and leaving another injured. He was later neutralised following an hour of an operation by a joint team of Kolkata police’s combat force and CISF.

(With inputs from IANS)

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