A small cloth-bound packet containing powdery substance created an anthrax scare at the main post office. But it later turned out to be an innocuous mail containing Prasad and 'bibhuti'.
Postal officials, suspecting that the substance could be laced with anthrax, summoned to the post office the woman, Usha Biswas, to whom the letter was addressed. Biswas was asked to open the packet in the presence of postal officials. To the relief of the officials and a nervous Biswas, some pieces of sugar candy, flowers and bibhuti (a powdery substance) was found in the packet.
Biswas told that the mail was from her relatives in Chattisgarh. She had offered puja to a local deity there and Prasad was sent to her by mail service by the relatives.
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