Hoax caller arrested in DelhiOctober 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 26-year-old man has been arrested for making hoax calls to the police control room claiming that bombs have been planted in different places in the national capital. Ravinder Kumar Tiwari was arrested Wednesday from Wazirabad and two mobile phones and a motorbike were seized from him, police said Thursday.
Another hoax call has Delhi Police on its toesSeptember 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police received yet another hoax call Friday warning of a bomb blast in Connaught Place, the heart of the national capital, officials said. "The call came on a landline of a computer institute whose office is in Connaught Plale at around 9.30 a.m.
Man detained making hoax bomb calls from hospital pay-phoneSeptember 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Wednesday detained a 45-year-old man from a hospital here on suspicion that he might have made a series of hoax bomb calls Tuesday. The suspect, Kanta Prasad, who is of Gorakhpur area of Uttar Pradesh and is at present living at Najafgarh area, was caught from a PCO (pay-phone) booth in the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital around 4 p.m.
Bomb hoax in Delhi buildings, hospitals leads to panic (Second Lead)September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Panic gripped the national capital Tuesday after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up four crowded places - the Safdarjung Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital, the Palika Kendra and Vikas Minar. The call turned out to be a hoax, but led to chaos and traffic jams, police said.
Bomb scare in Delhi areas, Safdarjung Hospital evacuatedSeptember 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Panic spread in the national capital Tuesday with bomb scares being reported from four crowded places -- the New Delhi Railway Station, the Safdarjung Hospital as well as the high rise Palika Kendra and Vikas Minar. The sprawling Safdarjung Hospital in south Delhi was being evacuated.
Bomb hoax in Delhi buildings, hospitals creates panicSeptember 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Panic spread in the national capital Tuesday after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up four crowded places - the Safdarjung Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital, the Palika Kendra and Vikas Minar. The call turned out to be a hoax, police said.
Hoax bomb call at Ashok HotelJuly 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A call to the police Thursday claiming a bomb had been placed in the Ashok Hotel here turned out to be a hoax, police said. An unidentified man called the Chanakyapuri police station around 9:45 a.m., saying that there was a bomb in the five-star hotel, a police officer said.
Jaipur on alert following bomb hoax on planeApril 29th, 2009 JAIPUR - Jaipur Airport was placed on a state of high alert on Wednesday evening after air traffic control was informed of a bomb on board flight number IC-661. Air traffic control said they had received an anonymous call from Mumbai informing them of the bomb onboard.
Bomb scare on Air India declared hoaxApril 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An Air India aircraft fell victim to a scare Wednesday after a man in Mumbai called the arline call centre and said a bomb was placed on it. The aircraft was later thoroughly searched and declared as safe to fly.
Hoax bomb call at Bagdogra airportApril 17th, 2009 SILIGURI - The security forces at Bagdogra airport in West Bengal were thrown into a tizzy when a caller claimed that a bomb had been planted in an Indian Airlines flight, the police said Friday. A man called the airport and said a bomb was planted in the Guwahati-Bagdogra-Delhi Indian Airlines flight number 879 that was scheduled to land here around 3 p.m.
Securitymen in a tizzy at Taj Mahal following hoax callApril 4th, 2009 AGRA - Security at the Taj Mahal was beefed up and a thorough combing operation launched late Friday night following a threat call that turned out to be a hoax. Superintendent of Police B.P.
Hoax bomb call at Kolkata airportMarch 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - A hoax bomb call at the international airport's cargo department here created panic Thursday, officials said. 'An anonymous call came at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport around 4.45 p.m.
Bomb hoax at Chandigarh bus terminusMarch 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - An anonymous call threatening of a bomb blast at the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) in Sector-17, the commercial hub of Chandigarh, kept police busy for about two hours but it turned out to be hoax. According to police, an unidentified man called up the fire brigade emergency number (101) and said he had planted a bomb at the ISBT.
Threat to blow up Bhopal railway station proves to be hoaxMarch 11th, 2009 BHOPAL - Security was stepped up at the Bhopal railway station following a threat to blow it up on Holi Wednesday, the police said, but the call turned out to be a hoax. 'The railway police received the anonymous threat in Delhi, following which the alert was sounded here and subsequently the police launched a search operation.
Bomb hoax calls delay Delhi-Lucknow Shatabdi ExpressFebruary 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two bomb hoax calls delayed the New Delhi-Lucknow Shatabdi Express for more than an hour Wednesday. The first call came to the New Delhi railway station at around 4 a.m.
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