E-mail threat to blow Indian Airports on 12 January

An Assistant manager, in charge of Security in the wings of Air India at call centre, Harish Masand said that the airline received the threat mail on the e-mail address around 11 a.m. on Saturday at a call center of the national carrier Air India in neighbouring Gurgaon, airline sources said .

The e-mail read that there will be a bomb blast explosion in Indian airports on 12 January, 2008, sources said.

CISF,Central Industrial security force a para military force in charge of International Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi and takes charge of security of all prominent airports in the country, has already increased the number of personnel, a senior CISF official said.

As per reports the police at Udyog Vihar police station,Gurgoan,Haryana has registered a case and started the investigation of the matter.The e-mail source is yet to be traced.

The airport security staff is also monitoring the passengers and the activities at the airport,an attempt to prevent the Airport from any untoward incident.