{"id":306628,"date":"2018-12-05T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306628"},"modified":"2018-12-05T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:00:06","slug":"sankat-mochan-temple-in-varanasi-receives-terror-threat-security-tightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sankat-mochan-temple-in-varanasi-receives-terror-threat-security-tightened\/","title":{"rendered":"Sankat Mochan Temple in Varanasi receives terror threat, security tightened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306629 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181205-152709__01-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181205-152709__01-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181205-152709__01-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181205-152709__01-696x589.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181205-152709__01-496x420.jpg 496w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181205-152709__01.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The security has been tightened in Sankat Mochan Temple in Varanasi following a letter received by authorities claiming to hit temple with a bomb blast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vishambhar Nath Mishra, chief priest of the temple, said the letter threatening that a bigger blast will hit the temple again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief priest reportedly said, &#8220;We received a letter threatening a bomb blast in Sankat Mochan Temple in Varanasi. The letter said that bombings were carried out earlier in the temple and a bigger blast will happen again. We informed the police and handed over the letter to them. We are taking precautions and police is investigating the matter.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief priest further informed that this was the handiwork of some anti-social elements and added that the security has been tightened at the temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The temple, along with Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station, was the sites of serial bombings that rocked the city on March 7, 2006, claiming lives of 21 people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security has been tightened in Sankat Mochan Temple in Varanasi following a letter received by authorities claiming to hit temple with a bomb blast. Vishambhar Nath Mishra, chief priest of the temple, said the letter threatening that a bigger blast will hit the temple again. The chief priest reportedly said, &#8220;We received a letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":306629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[10098,283,1543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306630,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306628\/revisions\/306630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}