Surat Passport Office receives bomb threat email; gets forwarded to post offices across Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: (Feb 27) The Regional Passport Office at Surat on Friday received a bomb threat which turned out to be a hoax, but the e-mail was mistakenly forwarded to post offices across the state and caused panic, police said.

The Surat Passport Office received an e-mail at 5.55 am threatening that there would be an RDX blast on the premises at 12.10 pm and it should be evacuated, said Assistant Commissioner of Police V R Malhotra.

A team of Umra police station and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad reached the spot but nothing suspicious was found, he said.