Jaipur, March 10 -- A bomb scare prevailed at the passport or the post offices in about a dozen towns of Rajasthan today following alleged threats of planting of an explosive.
A police spokesman said that threats were conveyed through e-mails to the passport offices at Bhilwara, Sikar, Jodhpur, Churu, Pratapgarh, Dausa, Bikaner, Barmer, Kota, Ajmer, Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar.
The passport office in Udaipur is situated in a Mall in busy city area. On receiving the threat alert, the security personnel evacuated people and shop owners for search operations.
Similar alerts via e-mails were also received by post offices in Ajmer, Bikaner, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Dausa. Some other government offices also reported receipt of such threats in ...