Empty tiffin box triggers off panic in Hyderabad

The tiffin box, which was found lying on the road Monday morning around the same time when the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his convoy was to pass by the spot, was not picked up by anyone for fear of containing explosives, police said.

Police arrived on the spot and found it to be only an empty tiffin box. Further investigation was being conducted in this regard. The CM who came to know about it later, made a passing reference about the box in a lighter vein in his inaugural address at the civil-military conference held at Medhipatnam on the city outskirts.

The general officer commanding in chief of southern command Lt Col S Padmanabhan, who presided over the conference, said the panic over the empty tiffin box was indicative of the general mood of fear among the public in the country over the spurt in fundamentalist acts.