A bomb threat triggered panic on Mahatma Gandhi Road here on Sunday afternoon when a man called the city police control room of an impending blast.
Though the caller did not identify the place, the personnel of the city dog squad and bomb disposal squad combed the stretch from Queen's Road Circle to Trinity Church Circle between 1.10 p.m. and 2.10 p.m.
As the news spread, people ran helter-skelter. People from several buildings rushed out of their offices, according to an officer of the dog squad.
According to sources in the Intelligence Division of the city police, the call came around 12.50 p.m. The culprit spoke in Kannada saying that “the bomb would explode in sometime.”
The control room official alerted the dog squad and bomb disposal squad and both rushed to the spot and searched for the explosive, an officer said.
After a thorough search, the police found the call to be a hoax. The call has been traced to a public phone booth in the eastern part of the city. The Cubbon Park police have registered a case. Investigation is on.
