CHENNAI: Tension ensued on Wednesday after bomb threats were issued against the residence of former Chief Minister and AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami in Chennai, as well as the regional passport office in Coimbatore.
According to police sources, an email was received in the morning claiming that explosives had been planted inside the passport office in Coimbatore and that they would detonate soon.
Around the same time, a separate threat was directed at Palaniswami's residence on Greenways Road in Chennai, warning that a bomb had been installed on the premises and would explode without delay.
Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads (BDDS), along with sniffer dogs, were immediately deployed at both locations. At the former Chief Minister's residence, security was intensified, and the premises were thoroughly combed by police teams.
Similar searches were conducted at the Coimbatore passport office, where anxious employees and visitors were evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Officials later confirmed that no suspicious objects had been found at either site, but security checks continued for several hours to rule out any possibility of danger.
Senior police officers described the threats as "highly disruptive" and said that the emails are being traced to determine their origin. Cybercrime investigators have been roped in to identify the sender.