Bomb scare at 3 railway stations and Big B house
Nothing suspicious found after searching these locations throughout night: Cops
Mumbai: Security agencies got into a tizzy after an anonymous caller informed the police that bombs have been placed at three railway stations in Mumbai and actor Amitabh Bachchan’s bungalow, although the call later turned out to be a hoax and two persons were detained from neighbouring Thane in this connection, an official said on Saturday. The caller, who is one of the detainees, is a truck driver, he said.
Security at three prominent railway stations in Mumbai and Bollywood actor Amitabh Bacchan’s bungalow has been beefed up after the police received an anonymous call about bombs being placed at these locations. Though the police found it as a hoax call, they have arrested three persons in this connection.
According to the police, late on Friday night they received a call from an unidentified person who threatened to blow up Dadar, Byculla, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway stations and Mr Bachchan’s bungalow in Juhu. However, they did not find anything suspicious after searches at these locations throughout
the night.
The Mumbai police’s main control room received the call at around 9 pm on Friday. Local police stations, AntiTerrorism Squad, government railway police and bomb detection and disposal
squad were intimated, and they carried out searches at the four locations.
“We also checked all the four bungalows of Amitabh Bachchan from outside to understand if there was any mischief,” said senior police inspector Shashikant Mane of Juhu police station.
The police traced the caller from the mobile number to Shil Phata area in neighbouring Thane. The caller turned out to be a truck driver from the Marathwada region. Along with him, two other men, his drinking buddies, were also held, the police official said.
It is suspected that they were drinking together when the hoax call was made. A First Information Report was registered at the Azad Maidan police station under IPC sections 505(1) (circulating a rumor with an intent to cause alarm to public), 506 (2) (criminal intimidation) and 182 (giving false information to public servant).Further investigation is going on, he added.