After city airport, State secretariat gets bomb threat call

Kolkata, Sep 9 (PTI) Two days after hoax calls were madeabout bomb threat at NSC Bose International Airport, anothercall was made to the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ today,claiming that a bomb had been planted there. The call sent the police into a tizzy but it turned out tobe hoax as nothing was found by the bomb squad. A male voice called up the state secretariat control roomat around 9.30 AM claiming that a bomb has been planted therewhich will blow up the building at 2 PM today, a seniorofficer in charge of security at ‘Nabanna’ said. "Following the call, security has been beefed up at theSecretariat. Generally, two to three check-ups are done onregular basis but today we have added two three more layers toit," he said. Kolkata police bomb squad personnel and sniffer dogscombed the entire 14-storied building on the bank of Hooghlyriver but they did not find anything "suspicious", the officersaid. "We are trying to trace the call by locating its towerposition. Hopefully the person will be nabbed soon," he said. A few months back, a person in his mid-50s was arrestedfrom the city’s Kalighat area for making a similar call. On Wednesday, three phone calls were made threatening toblow up the NSC Bose International Airport. While the firsttwo calls were made to city police headquarters in Lalbazar,the third one was made to Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate,under which the airport falls. The calls however, turned out to be hoax. PTI SCHARK