RBI Customer Care Gets Bomb Threat, Caller Claims To Be "Lashkar CEO": Sources

The call came on the helpline number around 11 am on Saturday and he threatened to blow up the central bank with a bomb, said sources.

A bomb threat was received on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s customer care number yesterday, during which the caller claimed to be the "CEO of Lashkar-e-Taiba", sources said.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group had carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, one of the deadliest terror attacks in India.

The call came on the helpline number around 11 am on Saturday and he threatened to blow up the central bank with a bomb, they said. He said he was the "CEO" of the banned group and sang a song over the phone before issuing the threat, sources said.