Delhi's Red Fort Gets Bomb Threat, Turns Out To Be Hoax
A bomb threat against Delhi's Red Fort was declared a hoax after a thorough police investigation. The incident follows a history of security concerns in the region, including past terror-related arrests linked to international groups.
Why it matters
The incident highlights ongoing security challenges in India and the persistent threat posed by extremist modules operating within the country.
The Red Fort in Delhi received a bomb threat call, prompting a security response and a thorough sanitisation of the premises, officials said.According to officials, the caller phoned the Mumbai Police Control Room on Friday and threatened to blow up the Red Fort. The officials in Mumbai immediately alerted the Delhi Police Control Room - which informed the North District police.After carrying out necessary checks, the police declared the bomb threat a hoax.The bomb threat comes nearly eight months after 15 people died and over a dozen were injured in a high-intensity vehicle-borne IED blast near the Red Fort Metro Station. Umar-un-Nabi, a Kashmiri doctor working at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, near Delhi, was driving the Hyundai i20.The incident took place on a day when 2,900 kg of explosives, including ammonium nitrate, were found just 50 km from the capital, in neighbouring Haryana's Faridabad.
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