Bomb hoax at Bedi's constituency office, landlord gets phone threats

Phone calls about the presence of a bomb at Kiran Bedi’s office in Krishna Nagar on Monday and Tuesday forced police to conduct a search in the residential building in which the office is set up. Police said the no FIR was required to be registered as the search yielded no explosives.

The BJP’s chief ministerial candidate on Tuesday afternoon had tweeted that the callers were issuing life threats to the building’s landlord and her son and that they were directed to have the building cleared of the BJP workers.

Kalpana Devi Jain, municipal councillor from east Delhi and a campaigner at Bedi’s office, told Deccan Herald that the calls were received soon after dozens of protesting advocates went on rampage on Monday, vandalising the office and injuring three men.

“I have kept a record of all the times that the calls were made. The first was received at 6.25 pm on Monday and then they continued till today (Tuesday) morning. We approached police and gave a written complaint. A police team arrived and checked the building for explosives,” said Jain.

The alleged threat calls were received on the mobile phones of the landlady Suman Bindal and her son Appy. “Initially the two of them did not take the calls from those numbers, thinking them to be spam calls. When Suman did receive the call, the person on the other side told her that there was a bomb in the BJP office. The mischief monger was possibly trying to divert our attention from the election campaign,” alleged Jain.

Appy too then received similar calls from the same phone number which belonged to another country, said Jain. She suspected that the caller must have noted down the two phone numbers from a BJP advertisement board outside the building.

A senior police officer said some BJP workers did visit the police station to register a complaint, but they did not make any call to the police control room.