Jaipur, April 13 -- An email threatening to blow up the Rajasthan State Assembly complex and the High Court premises here created panic, as bomb disposal squads and sniffer dogs carried out intensive search for several hours. However, it turned out to be a hoax.

The assembly secretariat received an email around 1100am this morning threatening to blow up the assembly complex by RDX within the next three hours.

The assembly secretariat instantly informed the Speaker Vasudev Devnani, who in turn called up Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Sharma for all necessary action by the police.

The assembly complex was evacuated, as the police deployed sniffer dogs and the bomb disposal squads swung into action, carrying out intensive search in ...