MARGAO:  The Trivandrum-Delhi Rajdhani Express was on Wednesday halted for nearly 35 minutes at the Margao railway station as a thorough search was conducted on the train following the information that a bomb was planted in the train.

The  bomb  disposal  squad, the Railway Police Force, Konkan Railway  securities  along with  local  police  conducted  the  search.
“We found nothing.  The entire  train was   searched by the  BDS, RPF and local police  along with the KR officials. Police   sources had informed that a bomb had been  planted  in the train and therefore  the search  was conducted,” said the district collector, Mr N D Agrawal after the  search  was completed.
He, along with the deputy superintendent of  police,  Railways,   senior police officials from the BDS   and  the state police force  conducted the  search without giving  any clue to  passengers. A sniffer dog was also pressed into service. The BDS with all its bomb checking devices searched the bogies of the train, but no explosives were found.
Senior PRO for the KRC, Mr Baban Ghatge said the search was stealthy carried out so as  to avoid panicky situation among the passengers.  
Mr Ghatrge said they received a phone call from a Sawantwadi police sub-inspector saying that a bomb had been  planted in the Rajdhani Express train No 12431. The station master passed on the information to Margao station master and immediately to the BDS.  Local police were also called in at the station.  Fire services and other agencies were also  alerted. When the train arrived at the station the police commenced the search operations. He added that around 40 to 50 police personnel conducted the search. 
The South Goa police chief, Mr Arvind Gawas said that police took all precautions while conducting search and that all bogies were checked.
He said that police patrolling has been intensified on railway platform by the railway police.
Mr A K Patil, the RPF senior official recalled that  similar search was conducted in  December, 2011.
Sources informed that there had been an ATS tip-off that some terrorists have been  trying to target the Rajdhani Express.