An anonymous email on Monday created a bomb scare by threatening that 15 cyanide gas filled RDX bombs were planted in the Rajasthan Assembly complex, which will go off within the next 3 hours. The threat eventually proved to be a hoax as no RDX or anything suspicious was found in an extensive search that kept the cops on toe for 4 to 5 hours.
The Assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani said that an email was received on our official mail Id at 11:19am today that had written that 15 Cyanide gas filled RDX bombs will go off in the next three hours and that they will blow up the assembly complex. Only lower grades employees will leave (exit out) the premises.
Devnani said the message or reason of the “bomb blast” is not clear. Moreover, a mysterious reference on the joining of some Brahmin into DMK, makes the matter totally strange and unrelated to Rajasthan politics as well as the state assembly. This issue related to DMK is unrelated and alienates our state politics. It also referred to S V Shekhar’s joining into the DMK.
The Speaker said, “The email stated that not even a single Brahmin should join the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). The assembly premises are being blown out, because you have sent him (Shekhar) as a Brahmin agent into South India (politics).”
“We (assembly) sent nobody, we don’t even know who this SV Shekhar is? We or our state have nothing to do with such issues,” he added.
He further said, “Since everything in the email is strange, we instantly informed the Director General of Police and the Jaipur Police Commissioner about this.”
The police equipped with sniffer dog squad and bomb disposal squads had searched intensively the whole assembly premises, however, no RDX or any explosive, nothing suspicious thing found, all is well, assembly spokesman informed later
Meanwhile, the security personnel have also remained occupied in search operations for several hours at the high court and the subordinate district and session court, but no explosive material was found there either, an official spokesman said.
Speaker Devnani has expressed concern over the prevailing trend of such threats at various places and urged for deep probe and investigations.
Meanwhile, former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot also expressed concern over the trend of threats to institutions like the state assembly and the high court.
In a statement here Gehlot said that after the bomb hoax at different places in the past, now the threat of RDX blast in the assembly complex clearly reflects on the falling (deteriorating) law and order situation in the state.
This is happening because the authorities failed to take stern action in earlier similar instances of threats, he said.