The Mumbai Crime Branch has found nothing suspicious about 10 people who were named in a WhatsApp message that warned of a 26/11-type attack in the city. As the cops have given a clean chit to the ten, they are trying to find out who is behind the threat message and why he tried to implicate so many people, who are either from Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh or have some connection with it.

As part of their weeklong investigation, sources said, Crime Branch teams visited UP, Haryana and Vasai to question the people who were named in the WhatsApp message. The police found that nine of them belong to Bijnor and only two of them were known to each other. Of the ten, one person was in Haryana and the other in Vasai, though their mobile numbers are from Bijnor only. “We have verified everything but nothing suspicious has been noticed during the interrogation,” said a Crime Branch officer.