Ranchi collectorate receives bomb threat

Ranchi: The Ranchi collectorate received a bomb threat on Thursday, prompting the authorities to intensify security measures and carry out a search of the premises. However, the police later declared the email as a hoax. The threat came less than a week after a similar email was sent to Ranchi civil court, threatening to blow up the premises.Police said an e-mail was received on the email of Ranchi deputy commissioner (DC) Manjunath Bhajantri. The sender threatened to detonate the bomb around 11 am. The email, however, did not have a mention of the date.Following the mail, the police, a bomb detection and disposal squad, and a sniffer dog carried out a thorough search of the collectorate building on Thursday. However, no explosives were found during the search.Kotwali DSP Prakash Soy, who was leading the search, said, “Although we did not recover explosives, we are maintaining caution over the email. Our cyber experts are investigating to find the source of the email, so that the person behind the act can be arrested. It might so happen that the person(s) behind both the incidents is the same.”Earlier, on February 4, the civil court received a threat to blow up the court premises with RDX. The court’s registrar detected the email a day later, as February 4 was a holiday on account of Shab-e-Barat.