The IT capital, rocked by the 2008 serial bomb blasts is under renewed terror threat with the new target being Namma Metro stations on Reach One, scheduled for a grand opening on September 15, which could see Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in possible attendance.
Terror suspects recently detained in Delhi were found with sketches of the metro stations and the city’s major installations, top sources in the state secretariat told Deccan Chronicle.
Sources said the terror threat was revealed by officials from the Union Home Ministry who visited the BMRC office recently with the sketches and photographs seized from the terrorists.
“A team of officers including National Investigation Agency visited the BMRC office on KH Road and showed them the detailed blueprints of the metro stations and the sketches of other vital installations seized from terror suspects, who had been picked up by New Delhi police. The officers asked the BMRC to immediately remove building plans of the stations, detailed route maps, pier and girder details with emergency exit and entry points for moving fire tenders, from the website of the corporation,” he added.
The union home ministry has now passed strictures to all corporations handling public projects not to put out details of the projects on the website, the officer said.