Bhubaneswar, Jan 8: While the bomb scare in Odisha Courts premises on Thursday almost jeopardized legal proceedings and wreaked massive panic on the campuses, Odisha Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan informed it a hoax bid of the anti-national elements.
Reviewing the situations, Harichandan said, following extensive security measures and scans by intelligence wings of police, no clues regarding bombs or any other suspicious materials were found in the Court Campuses including the Orissa High Court that had acknowledged the emails.
Harichandan also said, the origin of the messages and the dispatcher will be identified shortly, as Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has directed for a comprehensive investigation. After detailed searches conducted by the Director General of Police (DGP) and security teams, court operations have fully resumed.
A high-level review of the incident is scheduled later in the evening, Harichandan added.
Worth mentioning, antisocial elements had reportedly sent deceiving mails to several Courts in Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh today, citing bomb threats on the campuses. As a result, security measures were heightened in the court premises almost across the nation with deployment of bomb & dog squads along with escalated intelligence arrangements.
