Police rushed to a private college in Hubballi following a phone call to the control room claiming that there was a bomb in the campus that serves as a pre-university examination centre.
Members of the canine squad and their handlers searched the building. However, they did not find any bomb.
Officers provided special security at the college in old Hubballi where Abhishek Hiremath, the boy accused of provoking the Hubballi violence, is appearing for his PUC examinations.