SECURITY was enhanced in the Second Capital, particularly in Mahal and Reshimbag areas, after an unidentified person made a call to the Police Control Room and threatened to blow up the Headquarters of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday. The caller threatened to blow up the Sangh building with a bomb. Soon after the call was received around 11 am, the Control Room Officer (CRO) alerted Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar and other senior police officials. Soon, the security in and around the RSS Headquarters, Smruti Mandir, Reshimbag and offices of Vishwa Hindu Parishad was further tightened. Heavily armed security guards from Central Industrial Security Force and State Reserve Police Force were already guarding the RSS Headquarters and Smruti Mandir in view of threats from Pak-backed terrorist organisations. Additional forces from Kotwali Police Station, Police Headquarters and Quick Response Teams were deployed. A Bomb Detection & Disposal Squad was summoned. The squad checked the entire area using sniffer dogs but no explosive device was found.

 

However, patrolling was intensified as a precautionary measure near Sangh building, Reshimbag Smruti Mandir and other sensitive and hyper-sensitive areas. Experts attached to Cyber Police Station were trying to trace the caller. Last month, a mentally-ill engineer had sent a letter to the police threatening to blow up the Sangh building, Smruti Mandir and Suresh Bhat Sabha Gruha. Later, he was nabbed by the police. In the small hours of June 1, 2006, a special team of Nagpur City Police under the supervision of the then Commissioner of Police S P S Yadav had gunned down three heavily Islamic terrorists in an encounter who made a vain attempt to blow up the RSS headquarters. Owing allegiance to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the three ultras who were carrying hand grenades, AK assault rifles and a huge amount of RDX, had come in police uniforms but were gunned down by the special team. A senior police officer told ‘The Hitavada’ that the investigators were trying to trace the caller who made a threatening call to the control room on Saturday.