It seems the festival season menace aimed at flights and airports is spreading to other key sectors as well.
Nearly two dozen hotels across Kolkata, Tirupati and Rajkot received email bomb threats that eventually turned out to be a hoax
In Kolkata, nearly 10 luxurious hotels received email threats on a day when home minister Amit Shah was visiting Bengal.
Although the usual anti-bomb drills were activated, nothing was found.
Kolkata police alerted central agencies given the multiple threats to flights over the past week. Top officers said the email sender used a pseudonym — Reality Is Fake.
Three hotels on Saturday in Tirupati received bomb threat, following a pattern as four properties in the Andhra city had been targeted in the past two days.
All these turned out to be hoaxes.
The threat emails referred to Jaffer Sadiq, alleged kingpin of a major drug racket nabbed by central agencies.
Saturday’s threats mentioned two names of Tamil Nadu deputy CM Udayanidhi Stalin’s wife Kiruthiga and Tamil Nadu DGP Shankar Jiwal.
The email mentioned “Afzal Guru will be re-born! Al-Badr!” — referring to the 2001 Parliament attack convict executed in 2013.
The email also claimed Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu’s car was twinned with hotel “IEDs”.
In Gujarat’s Rajkot, 10 hotels simultaneously received emails around 12.45pm Saturday from the same ID, “Kan Din”, threatening explosions.
In this regard, Rajkot DCP Parthrajsinh Gohil said the hotels were searched but nothing suspicious was found.
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