Passengers aboard the Coimbatore-Hisar Superfast AC Express were greeted on Sunday afternoon at Panvel by teams and teams of police personnel, causing a lot of confusion and panic.

Dozens of officers of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Government Railway Police, Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS), and the local police were waiting at the station at 2.50 pm to search the train owing to a bomb threat call received by the Navi Mumbai Police Control from the Southern Railway Headquarters.