Jaipur, June 09: Security has been beefed up around the 250-year-old Salasar Hanuman temple in Churu district after an unidentified caller from Ahmedabad threatened to blow up the famous shrine, a senior police official said today. "The caller, who used a mobile phone from Ahmedabad and identified himself as an agent of Pakistan's ISI, threatened to kill two members of the priest's family and blow the temple on Friday night," Superintendent of Police, Churu, R P Singh told. The priest had lodged an FIR a day after he received the threat, Singh said. Police was closely monitoring entry of worshippers to the temple and had sent a cop to Ahmedabad to find out the owner of the mobile from which the call was made, he said, adding, the temple had a caller ID facility which helped the police.

While there was panic in the temple area yesterday, devotees appeared unaffected today, the SP said.
Police was also investigating whether the priest's family had any old enmity with anyone in Ahmedabad, Singh said.
Bureau Report