Delhi. A bomb threat was received at the Bank of Baroda located on Sansad Marg, Delhi. Due to this information, there was chaos in the Bank of Baroda branch located at Sansad Marg on Tuesday, when information was received about a bomb being kept in the bank premises. As soon as the police received the information, a search operation was conducted in the bank premises at around 1:10 pm. Teams of fire department and bomb disposal squad became active. The teams that reached the spot conducted a thorough search of the entire premises for about one and a half hour, but no suspicious object was found. The information was later declared fake.
Search operation after bomb threat
After receiving the bomb threat, security agencies immediately took action. According to a Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official, information about a bomb being planted in the Bank of Baroda branch located at Sansad Marg was received at 11.36 am on Tuesday. After this, the fire department team was immediately sent to the spot. Seeing the seriousness of the information, police and bomb disposal squad team also reached the bank.
Bomb threat turned out to be fake
At 1:55 pm, the bomb threat was declared hoax after a thorough search. Security teams closely checked the rooms and other parts of the bank premises. During the search operation which lasted for about one and a half hour, every possible place was searched. However, no explosive or other suspicious object was recovered during this period. The official said that after nothing suspicious was found in the investigation, the bomb information was declared fake. Due to the incident, there was a commotion of security agencies in the bank premises for some time.