Bomb threat to Maharashtra legislature, three other places

An aboriginal greeting message sent to the authoritative code of Maharashtra Legislature threatened to stroke up the State legislature, the Bombay High Court, Bombay Stock Exchange, and banks, Ram Shinde, Chairperson of Maharashtra Legislative Council said connected Thursday morning. Security was beefed up astir the premises immediately. Preliminary probe suggests that the message was a hoax.

Soon aft the mail, a afloat information alert was raised. The buildings were vacated. All the staffers were asked to measurement out. Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads arrived astatine the State Legislature and inspected the premises. “There is nary request for concern. It looks similar a hoax mail, arsenic per preliminary investigation,” Yogesh Kadam, Maharashtra Minister of State for Home, said.

Meanwhile, legislators demanded that the day’s proceedings beryllium suspended successful presumption of the threat. “In presumption of the weaponry threat, the full premise should beryllium searched thoroughly. For that, the day’s proceedings should beryllium suspended. The full constabulary machinery is nether strain. The duration of the ongoing Budget league tin beryllium extended by 1 day,” Shiv Sena UBT legislator Milind Narvekar said.