Overview
- Police received an email on Thursday threatening Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan’s Chennai residence, triggering a rapid security response.
- Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad personnel and sniffer dogs searched the Poes Garden address and found no explosives.
- Officers also checked an earlier Mylapore property linked to the Vice President as a precaution and declared it safe.
- Chennai has logged multiple recent hoax threats targeting VIPs and institutions, including Ilaiyaraaja’s studio and actor-politician Vijay’s residence.
- Fresh threats to collectorates were reported this week, including Tirupati on October 17 and Coimbatore and Salem earlier, with searches finding nothing as cybercrime teams probe possible links.