Hoax bomb threat at Israeli Consulate in Bengaluru, probe underwayBengaluru: The Israeli consulate in Bengaluru had recently received a bomb threat, which turned out to be a hoax, and a probe into the matter was underway, the Karnataka Police said on Saturday. The consulate officers lodged a police complaint regarding the incident on September 22. According to the FIR, on September 19 at around 3.10 a.m., a bomb threat email was sent from cho_ramaswamy@hotmail.com to the Israel Consulate office’s legal email ID consular2@bangalore.mfa.gov.il by a user identifying as Thuglak Cho Ramaswamy. The police said that a search operation was immediately conducted, which revealed that the email bomb threat was a hoax. On September 6, the Airport Police registered a case against an unknown person for sending a hoax email to the manager of the Kempegowda International Airport, threatening to blow up the airport using Improvised Explosive Devices.