Two days ahead of the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections, on Thursday seven states, including all south Indian ones, were put on alert after Bengaluru police received a tip-off about a possible terror attack on multiple cities.
According to the Hindustan Times, the Bengaluru police received an anonymous phone call, in which the caller, a man, claimed to have information about terror attacks in cities in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra, Telangana, Puducherry, Goa, and Maharashtra. The alert comes at a time when security and intelligence agencies are concerned about the existence of sleeper cells on Indian soil that could be linked to the group that carried out bombings in Sri Lanka, where 253 people were killed on Sunday during Easter celebrations.
Karnataka DG-IGP Neelmani N Raju on Friday wrote to his counterparts in six states and a Union Territory after receiving a warning of terror attacks. The caller according to the Karnataka DG-IGP, further claimed that the attacks will take place in trains. The letter by the Karnataka police official also intimated the presence of 19 terrorists in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram.
