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'Come quickly, take it away': Mumbai police get hoax call on 'bag with a bomb' inside apartment, caller turns out to be autistic teen
May 02, 2025 3:53 pm
The 19-year-old's father told the police that his son was under treatment for autism and also showed medical documents to support his claim.
Bomb threat forces Alliance Air’s Assam-Kolkata flight to make emergency landing
October 21, 2024 6:26 pm
The threat, which eventually turned out to be a hoax, was one of 25 received by flights across India on the same day.
How a hoax caller is keeping Ghaziabad Police on its toes
July 15, 2024 9:39 am
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ghaziabad, Suryabali Maurya told The Indian Express that the complaints in most of these hoax calls were regarding “domestic violence, theft, land dispute, beating and bruising”.
Solving crime | How a UPI transaction led Mumbai police to a hoax caller
October 03, 2023 4:07 pm
When the police realised the warning was a hoax, they registered a case against the caller and started looking out for him.
Man held for making hoax call in Mumbai
July 24, 2023 7:39 am
A call was received by the police control room at around 1.10 am on Sunday by a person who identified himself as Pandey.
Police Control Room receives ‘hoax’ call about three terrorists entering city
April 09, 2023 2:21 pm
The caller, who identified himself as Raja Thonge, named one of the terrorists as Mujeeb Mustafa Syed and also shared his car number.
Upset after quarrel, man made hoax call on bomb at Pune railway station; arrested
January 14, 2023 4:09 pm
Officers identified the suspect as Govind Mande, 38, a native of Parbhani district who currently resides at Shivshambhu Nagar on the Katraj Kondhwa road in Pune.
Teen makes hoax terror call to Taj Mahal Palace hotel
June 27, 2021 1:06 am
The hotel authorities relayed the information to the local police and the call was traced.
Karnataka police arrests truck driver for hoax call over 'terror attacks' in eight states
April 27, 2019 3:25 pm
Karnataka Central Crime Branch(CCB) officials t arrested a truck driver identified as Swamy Sundar Murthy who allegedly made a hoax call to the police and claiming that a terror attack had been planned in major cities of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Goa and Maharashtra.
Delhi: 60-yr-old man arrested for making hoax threat calls
February 24, 2016 2:25 am
Police said the first call was made to Anand Vihar railway station at about 2 pm and the second to the Indira Gandhi International Airport. “Mouharram made the calls from the same location,” said DCP (IGI) Dinesh Gupta.
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