Chandigarh, July 17 -- Security grids across the joint capital went into high alert on Friday after an anonymous bomb threat forced the emergency evacuation of the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat, just hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled arrival in the city.
The panic-inducing call, made directly to the police control room, triggered immediate safety protocols, forcing security forces to clear the multi-storey administrative building to conduct extensive sanitization operations.
The security scare emerged on a day when the Prime Minister is slated to land in Chandigarh to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for 10 major public welfare initiatives valued at Rs 4,700 crore.
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