Man held for hoax terror call in M.P.
The Hindu
Madhya Pradesh police have arrested a man for allegedly making a hoax call to the Mumbai Police control room about a nuclear terror attack, an officer said on Sunday.The accused, Jitesh Thakur, 35, wa
Madhya Pradesh police have arrested a man for allegedly making a hoax call to the Mumbai Police control room about a nuclear terror attack, an officer said on Sunday.
The accused, Jitesh Thakur, 35, was arrested here on Saturday based on a mobile number shared by the Maharashtra Police, Jabalpur's Additional Superintendent of Police Gopal Khandel said.
Thakur, unemployed and a habitual drinker, had called the Mumbai Police on January 6. According to Mumbai police, the man had claimed he was from the army and warned them of an attack with a nuclear bomb, and bombings at places like the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), Kurla railway station, near actor Shah Rukh Khan's bungalow and near a gurdwara at Kharghar.