Kolkata on high alert after e-mail warning from IM
Kolkata, Jul 30: Kolkata has been placed on high alert after an e-mail from the terrorist group 'Indian Mujahideen' to a TV channel and other media houses warned of blasts at the Calcutta High Court and at a top private hospital.
As
many
as
70
per
cent
of
vehicles
disappeared
from
roads
after
an
investigation
search
was
launched.
Police
have
detained
Kaushik
Bose,
the
son
of
a
cyber
cafe
owner
in
Kolkata's
upmarket
Salt
Lake
area,
and
questioned
him
throughout
on
Tuesday
July
29
night.
Kaushik
said
he
would
help
the
police
identify
the
people
who
had
sent
the
threatening
e-mail
from
the
cyber
cafe.
The
cafe
was
operating
illegally,
said
police.
What
was
most
mysterious
about
the
mail
was
that
it
mentioned
a
car
bomb
and
gave
the
registration
number
and
type
of
vehicle.
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A search was launched for the car but it turned out to be used by Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah. "I came home in the same car. It is still parked at Tiljala police station where it is normally kept for the night," Mollah said.
ANI