NEW DELHI: The Delhi Assembly on Monday received yet another bomb threat on email, prompting Speaker Vijender Gupta to write to Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha to address the matter permanently, an official said.
The email, which comes after similar threats sent earlier, was received at 11:12 a.m. on the official email ID containing alarming claims about explosives being used inside the Assembly premises.
On March 25, the Assembly received a threatening email message which claimed that as many as 16 RDX-based Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) had been planted inside the Assembly premises, with a plan to detonate them at 1:40 p.m. -- just before the House sitting. It, however, turned out to be a hoax.
In his letter to the Delhi Police Chief on Monday, Speaker Gupta brought to his attention the repeated receipt of threatening emails sent to the official email ID of the Delhi Assembly as well as to his personal email ID over the past few weeks.
The threat emails reportedly mention plans of planting bombs in the Assembly building and carrying out blasts within a specified time, the Assembly Speaker said.