(Pooja Dubey, Intern Journalist) A 36-year-old man was detained in Kota on Tuesday for making false calls threatening to blow up an MLA hostel in Mumbai and an office of a Bangalore-based software company. This information was given by the police.
Police said the man allegedly called the Mumbai and Bangalore police on Monday and Tuesday intervening night and told them that the bombs kept in the hostel and software company’s office would explode in two hours.
Superintendent of Police Gaurav Yadav said that “Kota police were informed about the presence of the person making the call later in the night in the railway station area of the city.”
He said, “a police team led by Assistant Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar Jain and Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhagwat Singh took the caller into custody from a hotel under the Bhimganjmandi police station area near the railway station”. He said that the person has been identified as Piyush Purohit.
He told that he hails from the Sikar district of Rajasthan and lives in Dhule, Maharashtra with his parents.
Yadav said that in the initial interrogation, the person admitted that he had made the above false call for intoxication and sympathy for his family.
The Superintendent of Police said that no criminal background of the person has been found so far. He said that Mumbai and Bangalore police have been informed about his custody.
Bhimganjmandi police station sub-inspector Chetan Sharma said that Purohit used to work in a call center but is currently unemployed.
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