A sudden tip-off from an anonymous caller saying bombs have been placed at threeꦐ railway stations in Mumbai and actor Amitabh Bachchan’s bungalow got the security agencies into a tizzy on Saturday.
According to an official, the call turned out to be a hoax and police nabbed two persons from neighbouring Thane in connection to this fake﷽ bomb scare case.
The caller, who is one of the detainees, is a truck dri♉ver, he sa𒉰id.
Police said they had received the call on Friday night, following which searches were carried out at these four locations, but nothing suspicious was found during🗹 the opera🌃tion.
“Mumbai police's main control room had received the call around 9.45 pm on Friday, in which the caller said that bombs have b☂een placed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), Byculla, Dadar railway stations and at megastar Amitabh Bachchan's bungalow in Juhu,” the police official said.
"After getting the call, the Government Railway Police (GRP), Railway Protection Force (RPF) along with the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squa🍃d (BDDS), dog 💎squads and local police personnel rushed to these locations and carried out searches," he said.
At the CSMT station, all the platforms𝔉, the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) office, parking lots and other nearby areas were searched with the help of the BDDS and dog squads. A team of Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS), Quick Response Teams (QRT), teams of a few local police stations, including Marine Drive and Azad Maidan, were also involved in the operation, he added.
But despite several hours of s🅷earch, nothing suspicious was spotted at the CSMT and other tಞhree locations, the official said.
The police tracked the mobile number of the caller and traced him at Shil Phata area near Mumbra in Thane district,🍸 he s𒀰aid.
“The caller is a tru💞ck driver from Marathwada region of Maharashtra. We have learnt that he has a habit of drinking. He has been detained along with one more person and the process to register an offence is currently on,” the p🐽olice official said.
(With PTI Inputs)
