Bengaluru: Drama ensued at the Metro Railway Station yesterday after a metal detector at the gate beeped when a man tried entering the premises. When the security personnel pulled him up for an enquiry, the man fled from the spot.
According to media reports, the man in his 50s or early 60s was dressed in kurta-pyjama and sporting a skull cap and a scarf around his neck. The private security personnel deployed by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited stopped him and a checking device made a loud noise when it was scanned around his waist.
The man had even tried to enter through another gate and offered a bribe to a house keeping staff to take his bag inside but the woman refused, said the report.
BMRCL chief public relations officer B L Chavan, was quoted saying, “By the time other people walked in. They wanted to go without being frisked. So our security people stopped them and scanned them. By the time (others were frisked), this man had walked out,” he said.
Meanwhile, Ravi D Channanavar, Deputy commissioner of police, said searches were going on at various places, such as lodges, hotels and other places such as railway station and bus-stands.
He appealed to the public not to pay heed to rumours and to immediately call police whenever they come across anybody or anything suspicious.
In the aftermath of the Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka, tight vigil is being maintained in the state. In a recent interview, the Sri Lankan Army chief had revealed that some of the suicide bombers who carried out the country’s worst terror attack visited various parts of India, including Bengaluru.