Jet flight searched for bomb in Delhi

New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) A Jet Airways flight from Delhi to Chennai was searched here on Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller reported that a bomb had been placed in the plane, police said.

Police said the call regarding flight 9W832 was received at around 4 p.m., just before it was to take off with some 115 passengers.

"A thorough search is being conducted in the plane" at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Deputy Commissioner of Police Dinesh Kumar Gupta told IANS.

He said all the passengers had been evacuated and taken to a safe place.