<p>A large contingent of security personnel including railway police, the bomb disposal squad of the Chennai police and a couple of sniffer dogs were pressed into service when the train reached Chennai nearly 100 minutes late, official sources told Deccan Herald. <br />SE from Patna is scheduled to reach Chennai at 1:05 pm everyday and leave for Bangalore at 1:30 pm. “Around 2:40 pm we received information about the bomb threat from the Bangalore railway police. The threat call was made to the DGP office there,” the sources said. <br /><br />The search operation began even when the SE reached Chennai Central station. After a thorough search of all the compartments, the train was cleared for departure at 4:10 pm," the sources said, adding that the bomb threat turned out to be an elaborate hoax. <br />The Bangalore-Patna return train of SE via Chennai which reaches the station around 3 pm was also subjected to a thorough search. The train was cleared for departure at 3:20pm. <br />Hundreds of passengers in both these trains were put to great inconvenience, even as the search operations delayed the departure of certain other trains from Chennai Central station.</p>
<p>A large contingent of security personnel including railway police, the bomb disposal squad of the Chennai police and a couple of sniffer dogs were pressed into service when the train reached Chennai nearly 100 minutes late, official sources told Deccan Herald. <br />SE from Patna is scheduled to reach Chennai at 1:05 pm everyday and leave for Bangalore at 1:30 pm. “Around 2:40 pm we received information about the bomb threat from the Bangalore railway police. The threat call was made to the DGP office there,” the sources said. <br /><br />The search operation began even when the SE reached Chennai Central station. After a thorough search of all the compartments, the train was cleared for departure at 4:10 pm," the sources said, adding that the bomb threat turned out to be an elaborate hoax. <br />The Bangalore-Patna return train of SE via Chennai which reaches the station around 3 pm was also subjected to a thorough search. The train was cleared for departure at 3:20pm. <br />Hundreds of passengers in both these trains were put to great inconvenience, even as the search operations delayed the departure of certain other trains from Chennai Central station.</p>