Intensive check by police, panicked passengers..!?
This threat call is not from our metro station in Bangalore. In the national capital itself. A bomb threat call was received at Delhi's kashmir Gate metro station on Sunday, which caused concern among the security forces as well. However, it is learned that the threatening call turned out to be a hoax and the caller, who was said to be drunk at the time, was arrested by the police.The incident occurred two days before Independence Day when security was beefed up across the national capital, especially at sensitive locations like the delhi Metro stations. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) control room received a call late in the evening that there was a bomb at delhi Metro's kashmir Gate station. The metro police and CISF have launched a search operation and the situation has created panic at the busy station. Passengers were also appalled at the scale of the checks.
After an extensive search of the metro station by CISF forces, nothing was found, and the threat call was found to be false. The police then started tracing the caller and he was arrested today from the kashmir Gate area, the police said. When the CISF called the control room, it was reported that 26-year-old rahul was drunk. He is also known to be from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. kashmir Gate Metro Station is one of the major metro stations in Delhi. It is a major interchange in the delhi Metro network and is a major interchange for the Yellow, Purple and red lines. With this background every day lakhs of commuters change metro trains at Delhi's kashmir Gate metro station.