India, July 22 -- The Iskcon temple at the Girgaon Chowpatty received a hoax email on Sunday saying that a bomb had been planted at the temple and it would go off in 16 hours if the Tamil Nadu government and police refused to implement recommendations by the state's various committees.

A team of local police along with Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad checked the temple and found nothing suspicious.

According to the police, they have registered a complaint based on the statements of Rahul Govekar, the security manager at the temple.

Govekar, employed at the temple since 2017, lives on the temple premises, and keeps a check on the CCTV cameras, the fire system, the biometric system, and emails the temple receives, said the police.

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