Bomb threat emails sent to courts in Karnataka, premises evacuated
Mysuru/Dharwad (PTI): Panic gripped parts of Karnataka on Tuesday after the Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court and several district courts across the state received bomb threat emails, prompting authorities to evacuate the premises as a precautionary measure, police said.
Following the threats, judicial officers, lawyers, litigants and court staff were evacuated from the court complexes, and court proceedings were temporarily suspended.
Apart from the Dharwad Bench of the High Court, district courts in Mysuru, Gadag and Bagalkote also received similar threat emails, police said.
Bomb disposal and dog squads were rushed to the premises, and thorough searches were conducted, a senior police officer said.
"No suspicious objects were found at any of the locations," police said, adding that FIRs have been registered by the respective district police stations. An investigation has been launched to trace the source of the emails, and a further probe is underway.
Earlier, the passport office in Bengaluru’s Koramangala also received a similar bomb threat email. Following the alert, police and bomb disposal squads carried out security checks at the premises.
As a precaution, security checks were also conducted at the Passport Seva Kendra on Lalbagh Road, a senior police officer said. No suspicious objects were found, and the threat was later confirmed to be a hoax.
Based on a complaint lodged by a passport official, a case has been registered at the Koramangala police station, and efforts are underway to trace the source of the email threat, police added.
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BJP’s Nitin Nabin slams TMC over infiltration, SIR row
Kolkata (PTI): BJP president Nitin Nabin on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the TMC government in West Bengal, accusing it of protecting illegal infiltrators, targeting Hindus and playing “dirty politics” to derail the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.
Nabin alleged that there was a deliberate attempt by the TMC to turn West Bengal into Bangladesh and claimed that while the Election Commission was determined to weed out infiltrators and fake voters, the ruling party was committed to protecting them.
“The TMC government wants West Bengal to merge with Bangladesh. Under its rule, the demography of the state is being changed, posing a threat to national security,” he said.
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Dismissing the TMC’s allegation that the EC was harassing common people through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the BJP president said it was the state administration that was intimidating citizens to malign the poll panel.
“It is not the Election Commission that is harassing people. It is the TMC government’s SDOs and BDOs who are doing it to create fear and discredit the EC,” he alleged.
Nabin also accused the TMC government of being a protector of infiltrators and claimed that lawlessness had replaced governance in the state.
“Factories have been shut, and enterprises of corruption and lawlessness have been opened. Women are not safe under the TMC rule, and Hindus are being tortured,” he alleged.
Asserting that the BJP was fighting against what he described as the misrule of the TMC in West Bengal, Nabin said the party would continue efforts to curb infiltration, electoral manipulation and administrative intimidation in the state.
