Delhi/Hyderabad, May 14 (Hydnow): Tihar Jail where the BRS MLC Kavitha kept received a bomb threat at Tihar Jail.
An assailant called the jail authorities and threatened to blow up the jail. The police and officials were alerted after receiving a bomb threat mail to Tihar Jail.
Several police teams and dog squad teams reached the jail and started searching. They are trying to find out where the phone call came from.
Earlier, four hospitals in Delhi received bomb threats in emails.
This is the fourth time in a month that such threats have come to various places including schools, hospitals, and airports. (Hydnow)
The Union Home Minister has alerted the states of the country in the wake of the Indo-Pak War. The Telangana government and police, which were immediately alerted, took preemptive measures. Security has been tightened in Hyderabad.
Thirty-two airports across northern and western parts of the country, including Srinagar and Amritsar, have been closed for civilian flight operations till May 15, according to the civil aviation regulator.
In view of the ongoing high alert across India and intensified security arrangements in Hyderabad and Secunderabad, the city police have issued a ban on bursting firecrackers or fireworks in public spaces, particularly near military cantonment areas.
India responded strongly to Pakistan’s repeated drone and missile attacks and hit at least eight military targets inside Pakistan on Friday night with precision, thereby causing significant damage, the Centre told the media, as part of a special briefing on ‘Operation Sindoor’.