Amritsar rural police get bomb threat; police identify caller as jail inmate
The caller, who turned out to be a jail inmate, threatened to blow up Tarsikka police station
SSP Amritsar rural Charanjit Singh said the police had identified the caller who is lodged in a jail.
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Amritsar rural police were put on alert after they received a bomb threat call at the police control room here on Sunday.
The caller, who turned out to be a jail inmate, threatened to blow up Tarsikka police station.
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SSP Amritsar rural Charanjit Singh said the police had identified the caller who is lodged in a jail.
He said a case had been registered. He said the accused would be brought on a production warrant from jail for further investigation.
"We have also informed the jail administration so that they can recover the phone from which he made the call," he said.
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Earlier, the Tarsikka police station was put on alert and the police force from nearby stations was rushed there. A search operation was carried out.
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