Youth held for bomb hoax calls to Rajkot hospitals

Police said Vadodariya, a carpenter who hails from Mumbai and stays in Rajkot with his elder sister, made calls to three prominent hospitals in the city over the last 10 days, claiming that bombs have been planted on premises of the hospitals.

Vadodariya allegedly made his first such call to G T Sheth Orthopaedic Hospital near the District Collector office on January 8, saying a bomb had been planted there and that it was about to go off. Police had rushed to the hospital with a bomb disposal squad and a dog squad only to find that it was hoax.

“During primary interrogation, Vadodariya said that he had gone to G T Sheth hospital on January 4 afer he suffered injuries in a bike accident. However, he had to wait for three hours before doctors attended him. He said that since the hospital staff had harassed him, he made the bomb hoax call,” Inspector Mulu Godhania told The Indian Express.

The youth, according to police, made a similar call to H J Doshi Hospital near M P Malaviya College on Monday and followed it up with a call to P D U General Hospital on Tuesday. “He said that he made calls to the rest two hospitals just to have fun and make police and hospital staff run hither and thither,” the official said.