A contraption consisting of red pipes held together with a watch-like article and some wires that was kept on the compound wall along Mangaldas Road near Koregaon Park gave rise to a bomb scare in the area yesterday morning. It turned out to be a false alarm, and the police said a prankster might have created the object to look like the picture of a bomb shown on awareness posters put up by the police in the city.u00a0 <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/oct/Police.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 314px; " /> The police display the object that was found The discovery of the object had sent shockwaves through the locality and turned a lazy Sunday morning into a buzz of activity with all senior police officials arriving at the spot. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/oct/bomb-squad-member.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 182px; " /> Trigerring panic: A bomb squad member goes over the object found yesterday on a compound wall along Mangaldas Road The Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) rushed to the spot and checked the object thoroughly, finally concluding that it was a false alarm; officials of the bomb squad decided to treat the call as a hoax. The police, who had received a call from a passer-by about the suspicious object a little before 8 am, said that they had taken serious cognizance of the matter and that they believed somebody might have placed the contraption in the open just to play a prank. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/oct/Be-alert-poster.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 633px; " /> The police poster for awareness &ldquo;The police control room received a call from a passer-by at 7.55 am after he spotted a bomb-like object kept on the wall alongside the Mangaldas Road,&rdquo; Additional Commissioner of Police Chadrashekhar Daithankar said. &ldquo;Immediately, a team of the BDDS and senior officials rushed to the spot and banned the entry of vehicles from both sides on the road.&rdquo; He said that after checking the object for almost 30 minutes, the BDDS ruled out the possibility of explosives. &ldquo;There were only six red pipes and two wires, and it was all attached to the watch-like object,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The object was without explosives, detonators, splinters and other material which go into a bomb.&rdquo; Daithankar said the object was not hidden and instead was placed on the wall in such a way that anyone could notice it. Deputy Commissioner of Police Ramnath Pokle said it seemed somebody had seen the picture of a bomb on the awareness posters put up by the police in the city after the JM Road low-intensity blasts. Pokle said it was likely that the prankster made a lookalike of the bomb shown in poster and kept it on the wall to create panic. PI Shivaji Kamble of the Koregaon Park police station said after the incident a police team along with the BDDS and dog squad checked all big hotels and commercial places. u00a0&ldquo;We have started the investigation and an offence will be registered against an unknown person for the prank,&rdquo; he said.u00a0

Contraption consisting of red pipes, watch-like article, wires triggers panic; cops say object looks like picture   of bomb on awareness posters put up by them in city 

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