Security was beefed up on Metro Station in Delhi after police received a phone call of threatening to blow up metro station. The police control room had received the threat call at around 12:45 pm that bombs were placed in the Chawri Bazar metro station & it would be blown up.

Bomb disposal teams & dog squads were rushed to the spot to conduct searches at the underground metro station. The Delhi Police had on May 15 received a phone call from an unidentified caller threatening to blow up Sai Baba Temple in South Delhi, which later turned out to be hoax after intensive searches.