Disputed shrine receives bomb threat

Security at the disputed shrine atop Bababudangiri hills in Chickmagalur in Karnataka was beefed up in the wake of a bomb threat.

Additional police force was deployed at the hill-shrine and the three check-posts leading to it after an anonymous caller told the intelligence wing of Chickmagalur police that armed terrorists would raid the controversial Datta Peetha shrine. The woman caller told the police that the shrine would be blasted with bombs.

Additional superintendent of police in Chickmagalur Phaneendra Singh told reporters that adequate security measures were in place at the hill-shrine. All the three routes leading to the controversial shrine were being watched and additional personnel had been posted at the check-posts on the route.