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Hoax calls create panic

BANGALORE: Miscreants creating panic among the public by making hoax calls about bombs being planted continued on Independence Day too.

Three such calls were reported, including one to the Command Hospital on Airport Road, which was made around 7.30 a.m. to the reception counter.

The Ulsoor police were alerted and a search by the bomb disposal squad found the call to be a hoax.

Later, calls were made to the police control room that bombs had been planted at the Military Training School, Mehkri Circle, and Kamat Hotel, Sanjaynagar.

The school authorities rejected the possibility of a bomb on their premises, though the police and the bomb disposal squad went there to search the premises.

At the hotel however, customers who were having their breakfast fled when the police began the search.

A former Mahadevapura city municipal council member and two others were allegedly assaulted by a group of about 20 persons in Mahadevapura police station limits on Friday. Chinnappa, who is also a local BJP leader and member of the School Development Monitoring Committee (SDMC) of the Government Model Primary School, A. Narayanapura, was present on the school premises around 7.30 a.m., for the flag-hoisting. In his complaint to the police, Chinnappa said a group of 20 people came there, manhandled him and attacked his son Anand and Swamy with sticks.

Enraged supporters of Chinnappa later laid siege to the police station alleging that the police were protecting the accused. The siege threw traffic out of gear for over an hour on the Mahadevapura Main Road. The police registered a case following the intervention of K.R. Puram MLA Nandish Reddy.

Security personnel at the Bengaluru International Airport seized 13 live bullets and six used bullets from a woman passenger bound for Hyderabad on Friday.

The police said that the presence of bullets in a suitcase belonging to Aruna Nichani, a resident of Sarjapur Road, was found during scanning. However, the police said that Ms. Nichani was allowed to continue her travel after she surrendered the ammunition. Further probe is on.

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