Yogesh K Porwar
T
he hoax emails continue to bother city police as two schools and a private bank in central business districts received threat mails on Tuesday and Wednesday,which after details checks declared to be hoax .
The HSBC Bank branch near Trinity Circle is among the several of its branches received an email warning of explosives on its premises.The jurisdictional Halasuru police personnel was immediately alerted.
Bomb squads,BDDS along with local police rushed to the bank and evacuated the staff and customers before conducting a through search.After two hours of operation it was declared as hoax.
Going by the content of the email we knew it was hoax but followed SOP to check,a senior officer,said .
Similar threat mail were sent to Bishop Cotton Boys’ School and Bishop Cotton Girls’ School on Residency Road and St Mark’s Road warning to explosives have been planted and would explode.The police found the same Id used to sent hoax emails .
After checking the school premises,the jurisdictional Cubbon Park police declared the emails a hoax.Two separate cases were registered on Tuesday, officials said.
