Mall in Gurugram receives bomb threat, no suspicious object found

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], August 17 (ANI): A bomb threat was received at Ambience Mall in Gurugram on Saturday, but no suspicious thing was found during the search, Gurugram Police said.

“The administration of Ambience Mall received an email which says that a bomb has been planted in the mall. When we received the information, all the teams including the bomb detection and disposal squad, dog squad, SWAT team came to the spot,” ACP Vikas Kaushik told reporters.

“We started sanitising the mall. Till now, we haven’t found anything suspicious thing in the mall. Our cyber teams are tracking the sender of the email. We got the information at 10 in the morning,” he added.

Gurugram police has said that if anybody is found giving misleading or false information on bomb threats through any post on social media or via email which affects the law and order, legal action will be taken.

Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh Police this morning conducted a security mock drill at the DLF Mall of India in Noida.

DCP Noida Ram Badan Singh said, “A security mock drill was conducted in DLF mall. These kinds of drills are conducted to conduct checks in large areas to make sure that no one is in danger. Fire services, dog squad, and police teams participated in the drill.”

Earlier on August 9, an unidentified man allegedly made a call to the Government Railway Police control room, claiming that RDX had been planted at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), police said.

Following the call, police conducted searches at all CSMT stations but nothing was found.

In a statement, Government Railway Police (GRP), in Mumbai said, “An unidentified person made a call claiming that RDX was being placed at CSMT. As soon as the call was received, the GRP police informed the local police and bomb squad. A search was conducted at all CSMT stations, but nothing was found,” police said.

“The officer mentioned that when an attempt was made to trace the caller’s location, it showed up near CSMT. Shortly after, the individual switched off the mobile phone. The number used to make the call was traced to locations in both Mumbai and Bihar,” police said.