A Home Guard on duty at the Railway Mail Service (RMS) area, behind platform number one, heard a ticking sound from the parcel baggage at around 9.45 am and immediately informed the Government Railway Police there, a GRP official told PTI.
The GRP then informed the police who arrived with a bomb disposal squad for removing the baggage to an isolated place, the official said.
Director General of Police Mukesh Sahay said, it was not immediately known if the parcel contained a bomb.
"We will have to first detect whether it is a bomb. Only after that, will the question of who is involved will come in", the DGP said.
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Meanwhile, the suspicious object, weighing 10 kg, was taken safely in a special truck to an open uninhabited area of Rani on the outskirts of Guwahati, a bomb disposal official"said.
Urging photo journalists not to use camera flash while taking photos as it could trigger a blast, he said, the object would be safely detonated with another IED.
The parcel sorting personnel at the RMS yard said, the baggage, with many articles, had a GPO seal marked for Silchar in south Assam's Barak Valley.
It was to be transported by truck as railway services were suspended for the last ten days due to floods.
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