Delhi Assembly receives bomb threat ahead of budget presentation
New Delhi: The Delhi Legislative Assembly received a bomb threat Tuesday morning just hours before Chief Minister Rekha Gupta’s scheduled budget presentation.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the threat was sent via an email at 7:28 am to the assembly, followed by another email directed to Speaker Vijender Gupta at 7:49 am.
Times of India reported the email warned that the assembly building and a Delhi metro station would be blown up, quoting officials.
The emails reportedly named several high-profile dignitaries, including Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and Cabinet Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa.
Soon after the bomb threat, Indian forces’ personnel rushed to the spot and began carrying out checks and launched an investigation. “We have heightened security arrangements in and around the premises,” a police official confirmed.
Authorities are now conducting extensive anti-sabotage checks while probing the origin of the emails.
Nothing suspicious has been found so far after the premises were examined, and the searches continued, police said. KMS-16S
