Monday 22 August 2022

Mumbai hotel receives bomb threat call; caller demands Rs 5 crore

New Delhi: A prominent hotel in Mumbai received a bomb threat call, police said on Tuesday.

Police said that an unidentified person called the hotel and said that the bombs have been planted at four different locations on the hotel premises and demanded Rs 5 crore.

A case has been registered at Sahar Airport Police Station under Sections 336, 507 of the Indian Penal Code, police said.

On Friday, Mumbai Police traffic control cell received a message threatening an attack akin to the "26/11 terror blitz, Udaipur tailor’s killing or Sidhu Moosewala’s murder", and one person was detained in this connection on Saturday.

A man was detained from Virar near Mumbai and the crime branch team, which is probing the threat messages, is questioning him, as per sources. The threat, which was received on the WhatsApp number of the traffic control cell, was from a number with Pakistan’s code, police said.

With inputs from agencies

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