New Delhi: In the past week, several cases of hoax bomb threat calls were reported, with the latest one being to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office in Chennai, which also turned out to be a hoax.

Two weeks back, a bomb threat was issued to the Chennai residence of Vice-President C P Radhakrishna. This, too, turned out to be a hoax.

While the police officials of the respective states are looking into these cases individually, the central agencies are probing a possible larger conspiracy. Investigations are ongoing into the scores of hoax threats that were made to schools, mainly in Delhi. However, the cases the agencies are looking at more closely are the hoax threats that were made to the airlines that disrupted operations, which resulted in massive losses and inconvenience.

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