Overview
- Multiple post offices and adjacent passport centres in Hooghly, Paschim Bardhaman, Bankura and Howrah were cleared by police in West Bengal, with sniffer dogs and bomb squads finding nothing suspicious.
- Friday’s emails said earlier alerts were a test and warned of an RDX device filled with cyanide timed for 12:10 pm, urging evacuation by 11 am, yet no explosions occurred.
- Officials in West Bengal classified the messages as hoaxes after comprehensive searches, marking the fourth straight day of similar threats to courts and government facilities.
- Surat’s Regional Passport Office received a 5:55 am threat of a 12:10 pm blast, prompting checks by Umra police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad that yielded no evidence, and pending applicants were sent home for rescheduling.
- Surat authorities said the RPO’s alert was forwarded with Navsari Post Office in CC, then relayed to Ahmedabad and on to post offices across Gujarat, prompting precautionary police checks including evacuation of Ahmedabad’s General Post Office.