The man called up the city police control room on the emergency number 112 in the morning to issue the threat, sending the authorities into a tizzy, officials said
Police arrested the man who had issued bomb threat to Union minister Nitin Gadkari's residence in Nagpur. File Pic
Police on Sunday arrested a man for issuing a bomb threat to Union minister Nitin Gadkari's residence in Nagpur, officials said, reported the PTI.
The threat had turned out to be a hoax, they said.
According to the PTI, the man called up the city police control room on the emergency number 112 in the morning to issue the threat, sending the authorities into a tizzy.
During their investigation, the police traced the mobile number from which the call was made. They found that one Umesh Vishnu Raut, a resident of Tulsi Bagh Road near Vima Dawakhana in Sakkardara area of Nagpur city, was its registered user, an official said, as per the PTI.
"Based on the mobile location and swift technical assistance, police detained Umesh Raut from the premises of the Vima Dawakhana. He was taken into custody for questioning and later formally placed under arrest by the crime branch," he said, the news agency reported.
Umesh Raut reportedly works at a country liquor shop, he said.
The bomb threat call turned out to be a hoax, the police official said.
Senior officials said further investigation was underway to determine the motive behind the false alarm and to find out if the accused has any prior record of similar mischief, reported the PTI.
A case has been registered against Umesh Raut, the police said.
Threat emails to Zeeshan Siddique: 35-year-old man from Bihar held upon his return from Trinidad and Tobago
A 35-year-old man from Bihar was held at Mumbai airport on his arrival from the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago in the early hours of Friday for allegedly sending threat emails to former MLA Zeeshan Siddique and seeking extortion of Rs 10 crore, a police official said, reported the PTI.
According to the PTI, the suspect was identified as Mohammad Dilshad Naved. He had allegedly sent the threat emails in April this year and sought extortion in the name of the "D gang" (used to refer to the Dawood Ibrahim gang) after watching Youtube vidoes related to the murder of Zeeshan Siddique's father and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique on October 12 last year.
The police said that a probe into the threat emails to Zeeshan conducted by the Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) led to the IP address being traced to Trinidad and Tobago, following which Naved, who was working in his uncle's shop there, was arrested, the official said, as per the PTI.
"Mumbai Police had issued a Lookout Circular through Interpol. When Naved was returning to India, Interpol alerted Mumbai police. He was held at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) by a Crime Branch team on his return. He was placed under arrest after interrogation at the Crime Branch office," he said, the PTI reported.
Naved believed he would not be caught in the case since he was far away in the Carribean, the official added.
The case related to the threat emails was initially registered at Bandra police station and then transferred to the Anti Extortion Cell of Crime Branch, the official said.
(with PTI inputs)
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