Agra, May 25: The security cover in and around the Taj Mahal was heightened on Sunday after miscreants threatened to blow it up with RDX, planted inside.
The Agra Police, after an intimation from the State Tourism Department initiated a thorough search operation and registered an FIR in this connection.
A red alert was also flagged on the Taj Mahal Campus after the tourism department received an e-mail threatening to blow up the Taj Mahal with RDX, officials said on Sunday.
The e-mail received on Saturday claimed that RDX and IED were planted inside the Taj Mahal, prompting a thorough search of the 17th-century marble mausoleum, they said.
Confirming the receipt of the threat mail, ACP in-charge of Taj security, Sayed Arib Ahmad, said, “A search operation was carried out on the premises of Taj Mahal secretly so that no visitors will be panic.”
An FIR has been registered in this regard at the local cybercrime police station to ascertain the sources of the e-mail, he added.
“Initial probe suggests that the e-correspondence was sent using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). We are tracing its origin”, the ACP added.
