Bomb threat email to Pune civic body also targets Mumbai airport, Amitabh Bachchan's home

The official email ID of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) received an email threatening bomb blasts at 1.16 pm on Thursday, November 12. It threatens to blow up the PMC main building and the Mayor's office. It also warns of attacks on key sites in Mumbai, the international airport and the residence of veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan.

The email says a car bomb attack will be carried out on Bachchan's residence, the 'Jalsa' bungalow in Mumbai, between 9.11 pm and 5.11 am. The message refers to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. It says Bachchan will be killed by December 31 to avenge them.

The email also speaks of a bomb blast at 9.12 pm at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. It further threatens a blast using an iPhone at Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh's concert at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse in Mumbai on November 27, and urges people not to attend. Threats against courts and banks in Mumbai are also included.

The email ends with the name 'Khalistan National Army'. It also mentions the names of engineer Guranakh Singh Rukan Shahwala and Dr Gurnirvair Singh Khan Rajada.

Security agencies in Mumbai have been put on alert after another email threatening to blow up the city. Key sites in Mumbai, the country's financial capital, had been threatened only days earlier. The fresh email on Thursday, before a week had passed since that incident, caused alarm.

According to the information available, the new email mentions the Mumbai Mayor's office, banks and courts in the city, Bachchan's Jalsa bungalow in Juhu, the Mahalaxmi Racecourse and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The email threatens to blow up all of these places.

Investigating agencies are currently trying to establish the truth of the claims in the email and who sent it and from where. An official response from the police and details of the security inquiry have not yet come out.