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‘Install caller-ID phones’

MYSORE: The Commissioner of Police Sunil Agarwal has urged all educational institutions, commercial and business establishments and also government offices to install caller-ID phones in their offices.

In a press release, the Commissioner has said this will enable the police to track down troublemakers and also those who make hoax bomb calls to create panic in public places.

The Commissioner’s direction follows a hoax bomb call made to Anantha Geetha School in Vijayanagar Police Station limits on Friday. The school principal T. Balasubramaniam received a call from a person who said a bomb would go off in the campus.

On being informed, the police sent a bomb detection squad and sniffer dogs to the school. After a through search they declared that the call was hoax.

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