Proceedings at the Nampally criminal court here were disrupted for over three hours today following a bomb scare in the four-storey building that later proved to be a hoax.
Commotion prevailed in the court as advocates, staff and public ran outside the building, which houses 35 court rooms, after an anonymous caller rang up the second and third metropolitan sessions judges' chambers at 10 am and warned that four bombs planted in the premises might explode at any moment, police said.
Two calls were received by court staff, who immediately alerted police. Soon after, four bomb disposal and sniffer dogs teams, comprising 15 personnel of the City Security Wing, rushed to the court and searched the building for about three hours but found no explosives, police said.
"No explosive material was found and the bomb threat calls turned out to be a hoax," a bomb disposal team member said.
Officials said the calls were made from a from a public telephone booth.
This was the second bomb threat received by the court in the past one month. Earlier, the court had received a similar call on July 18.
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