Another bomb hoax in Madras High Court
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Chennai: In the second such incident in three weeks, an abandoned package triggered a bomb scare in the Madras High court complex before security personnel found it to be a hoax on Tuesday.
Bomb disposal squad was pressed into service after a cardboard box along with letters found inside the complex near the family court in the wee hours, police said pairs of alarm clocks wrapped in a cloth were found.
Police who were in security of the High Court campus heard some beep sound near the family court and on checking they noticed it was emanating from the card box. Bomb detection squad which rushed to the spot with sniffer dogs found on opening the box four alarm time pieces wrapped in papers along with three letters. It contained no explosives, police said.
One of the letters alleged that Goondas Act was being slapped on innocent people and judiciary was ignoring the trend while another one claimed a terror suspect was being tortured in the prison. On September 29, a mysterious object found in the public lavatory of the High Court complex creating a bomb scare before it was declared a hoax.
Source: PTI