Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) headquarters at Antariksha Bhavan on New BEL Road in north Bengaluru was placed on high alert Monday after receiving a fresh bomb threat email. This is barely a week after police cracked a similar hoax threat by tracing the accused to Uttar Pradesh.According to police, the threatening email was sent at 9pm Sunday and noticed by Isro staff when they checked their official emails at 10.45am Monday. The message, written in English, claimed a bomb had been planted inside Isro headquarters and that the blast would take place by 2pm.The alert triggered an immediate security response and the entire staff was evacuated. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS), dog squad and Sanjaynagar police rushed to the premises and conducted a thorough search. No explosives or suspicious objects were found and the threat was declared a hoax.Police carried out precautionary checks at Isro Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) office in Peenya Industrial Area, Phase II.Deputy commissioner of police (north) Babasab Nemagoud said the second threat was being taken as seriously as the earlier one. “The team is trying to trace the sender using technical assistance. The messages in both emails are different,” he said.The earlier threat email, written in Tamil, was sent on July 2, a senior police officer said. Police traced it to Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on July 3 and identified the accused as Nishanth Tyagi, 36. A class 10 dropout, he completed his BA through distance learning, and was later found to be suffering from mental illness.
