Bomb Threat At Leela Hotel Gurgaon A Hoax, Call Traced To Autistic Man In Hospital
NDTV
Leela Gurgaon Bomb Scare: At first the phone from which the call was received initially was switched off, but several hours later, the caller was traced, and it turned out to be a man with Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD, admitted in a hospital in Sector 47, Gurgaon, the police said.
A 24-year-old autistic man had the Gurgaon Police on their toes for more than an hour after he made a hoax call about a bomb at The Leela Hotel in Ambience Mall Complex in Gurugram this morning.
At first the phone from which the call was received initially was switched off, but several hours later, the caller was traced, and it turned out to be a man with Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD, admitted in a hospital in Sector 47, Gurgaon, the police said.
The call led to the evacuation of the entire hotel and sent the police in an over one-and-half-an-hour-long tizzy, during which they searched the Leela hotel for the bomb with a bomb squad and sniffer dogs, in the end declaring the call a hoax.
"Nothing suspicious was found in the hotel premises and the call was a hoax made by a mentally challenged man. An FIR is being registered against the caller and further action will be taken as per the law," said Virender Vij, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East).
