A series of bomb threat emails put the Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL), where India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) is under construction, on high security alert, and after nearly two weeks after the shipyard has received another threat mail.

The mail, received by one of the CSL officials, threatened to cause an explosion of the fuel tanks at the shipyard. Following this, a thorough security inspection was held within the CSL premises but nothing suspicious was found.

The new threat mail arrived even as the probe into the earlier received similar emails is yet to make any leads.
The police are trying to trace the IP address of the previous email sender.

Interestingly, the new mail was received by one of the five officials who received the threat emails earlier. CSL had lodged a complaint with Ernakulam South Police and a probe has been launched.

However, CSL authorities refused to comment on the incident. Security has been beefed up at CSL, though the authorities suspect it to be some kind of hoax or prank, sources said.

“The probe is going on. CSL’s security alert will continue to remain and police will provide all support to CISF, which is in charge of the shipyard’s security,” said a senior police officer of Kochi city police.tnn

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