IMPHAL, April 21: A hoax bomb situation unfolded a high drama at the New Secretariat building at Babupara this noon after employees found a suspicious looking packet wrapped in old newspapers and placed inside a black polythene in a waste basket on the second floor of the building.<\/p>\n
Police officials including bomb disposal squad rushed in to pick up the explosive material, however the explosive turned out to be nine empty bottles of D-Cof cough syrups wrapped in newspapers.<\/p>\n
The room offices personal staffs of the Director Settlement and land records. The suspicious looking packet was reported by an employee of the department.<\/p>\n
The bomb hoax also led to the suspension of all activities at the office complex for sometime, with CRPF personnel stationed at the office complex sealing off the entire complex.<\/p>\n
Security personnel later conducted a room to room search of the entire office building using sniffer dogs. Normal proceedings continued only after the security personnel declared the office clean.<\/p>\n
The official complex being in the midst of a high security area housing the Chief Minister’s bungalow, Imphal Police, Old Secretariat among others, several high police officials including the Addl DGP V Zathang, addl SP, SP in-charge IW also arrived at the spot to take stock of the situation.<\/p>\n\n
Read more \/ Original news source: http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2012\/04\/hoax-bomb-shakes-up-new-secretariat\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"