Hoax call sends Rashtrapati Bhavan into a tizzy
The security apparatus at Rashtrapati Bhavan remained on its toes on Monday evening after a call threatening to “blow up” the building was received.
The call, however, turned out to be a hoax.
The caller turned out to be the same man who had contacted the control room half an hour ago and threatened about planting bombs in Central Delhi, said Special Commissioner of Police M.K. Meena. The first call was received by the control room around 6 p.m. in which the caller asked for the personal number of former city police commissioner B.S. Bassi.
When the request was denied, he demanded a direct audience with Mr. Bassi over the phone. But, when the operator refused to do so, he threatened that he would plant bombs. “The number from which the call was made was found to be registered to an address at Central Delhi’s Daryaganj. Teams were rushed there and thorough checks were conducted but no bomb was found,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Parmaditya.
The man later confessed to the police over phone that he had had a heated argument with his wife and was agitated over the same. His last location was traced to Sarangpur in South-West Delhi. Efforts are on to arrest him, said Mr. Meena.
The police are also probing whether the caller was the same person who was pulled up for threatening to blow up a metro station last week.
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