Click to play videoChennai: Increasing cases of hoax calls and false alarms are sending security agencies and the media into a tizzy.
It started of on September 4th when a hoax phone call from a man threatening that the President's flight will be bombed resulted in the flight being fully searched and delayed.
Then on October 27th security agencies and the media went into a spin after the Kerala police received an e-mail threatening to kill the Prime Minister.
On November 9th - An anonymous letter at the Trichy airport sent airports across South India and the media on another alert mode.
Every hoax call means an alert that security agencies cannot avoid.
"It does mean increased strain on our resources but we cannot take anything lightly,” says DGP, Tamil Nadu, D Mukerjee
But as pranksters and hoax calls hit the headlines, security experts fear that this would only create a false sense of alarm. They say it will only be an incentive for more such calls and could also have long-term economic repercussions.
"There are a lot of pranksters who do this and when they see the response and the alarm they will make more such calls and there will be no end to it. Sometimes event terrorist organisations themselves put such information web sites to create a false sense of alarm,” says former director Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), B Raman
Meanwhile, Air Passenger Associations blame such frenzy on the way the authorities handle such threats.
"Airports are anyway high security zones and there's already fear. Security agencies must be more discreet on the language they use to the media,” says President, Air Passengers Association, Sudhakara Reddy.
So while security agencies cannot ignore any kind of threat, experts feel there's no need to make everyone nervous, the need of the hour perhaps is a little more discretion.
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest)
More on IBNLive Right Now
TOP NEWS
MOST SHARED
PHOTOGALLERY
