RBI Gets Bomb Threat, 2nd Time In A Month

Mumbai: Following a string of online bomb threats in the country, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has received a bomb threat via email, second such incident in a month for the Central Bank.

Apparently written in the Russian language, the email was sent to the official website of the Cen-tral Bank on Thursday afternoon, threatening to blow up the building with explosives.

The police have registered a case against the unknown sender at Mata Ramabai Marg (MRA Marg) police station in Mumbai.

The authorities were actively investigating the matter and working to track down those responsi-ble for the email threat.

On November 16, a similar bomb threat was received on the RBI’s customer care number and the caller claimed to be the “CEO of Lashkar-e-Taiba”.

During the call, the accused reportedly sang a song over the phone before issuing the threat. The Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group had carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, one of the deadliest terror attacks in the country.

The matter was immediately escalated to the Mumbai Police, who conducted a search. However, nothing suspicious was found.