‘Bomb blast threat to RBI and other locations in Mumbai’

MUMBAI: A threat mail sent to the Reserve Bank here about 11 bomb blasts in Mumbai on Tuesday sent police into a tizzy, but no suspicious object was found at these locations, including the RBI central office building and two other banks.

The e-mail was sent from the id khilafat.india@gmail.com on the RBI governor's email id at around 10:50 am threatening bomb blasts at the RBI new Central Office building, Fort, HDFC House in Churchgate, and ICICI Bank Tower in Bandra-Kurla Complex at 1:30 pm, a police official said.

Threatening execution of blasts, the sender demanded that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and RBI governor Shaktikanta Das resign from their posts immediately and release a full statement about the disclosure of the "banking scam", as per the FIR.

Police conducted searches at all the locations mentioned in the email with Bomb Detection and Disposal (BDDS) personnel, but nothing suspicious was found at these spots, the official said.