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Amitabh Bachchan's residence searched by bomb disposal squad
05th July 2007 09.00 IST
By Agencies

A team of officials and sniffer dogs from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) Wednesday searched the residence of Bollywood mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan following information that some subversive act could be carried out there, police said.

"A senior officer from the police got a tip-off about the possibility that some subversive act can be carried out at Jalsa, the Juhu residence of Bachchan, and hence the searches were carried out immediately," a police official said.

The team scoured Bachchan’s residence for a bomb but did not find one. The hoax was the result of an e-mail received by a city news channel, warning of a “bomb” planted at the Big B’s bungalow.

The BDDS team, along with the Juhu police, arrived at the superstar’s bungalow around 4.30 pm.

However, no explosive was found during the hour-long search and the team returned an hour later.

The e-mail received in the afternoon was sent by a person who identified himself as Pappu Yadav. The management of the news channel then contacted Additional Commissioner of Police (western suburbs) Archana Tyagi.

A police officer, who requested anonymity, as he was not authorised to speak to the media, said the mail warned that Jalsa would be “bombed out”.

Deputy Commissioner of Police V.K. Chaubey, while declining to divulge the contents of the e-mail, said the police were trying to track down the sender and determine the motive, and whether it was “just a prank”.

“The news channel’s management received the warning through an e-mail and they in turn alerted us. We carried out a search of Jalsa, a BDDS team was involved in it as well,” Chaubey said.

Bachchan and wife Jaya Bachchan , his son Abhishek Bachchan and wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, stay at the bungalow when they are in Mumbai.

Till the death a few years ago of Bachchan’s father, renowned Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, the family used to reside at its old bungalow Prateeksha.

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