Bomb scare at the passport or the post offices in about a dozen towns of Rajasthan following threats of planting explosives on their premises on Tuesday turned out to be a hoax.
A police spokesman said that the threats were conveyed through e-mails in the passport offices in Bhilwara, Sikar, Jodhpur, Churu, Pratapgarh, Dausa, Bikaner, Barmer, Kota, Ajmer, Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar.
The passport office of Udaipur is situated in a Mall in a busy city area, on receiving the threat, the security personnel were forced to get evacuated people and shop owners for search operations.
Similarly, alerts on e-mail were also received by post offices in Ajmer, Bikaner, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Dausa. Some other government offices also reported receipt of such threats in Jaipur, Alwar and Sawai Madhopur.
These threats kept the security agencies busy in searching the explosive, evacuating people and personnel from many premises.
No explosive recovery was reported until late afternoon, the police said.