Security officials were thrown into a tizzy when a man called up the police control room this evening threatening to “blow up” the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The call, however, turned out to be a hoax. When the caller was traced, it emerged that he was the same man who had called up the control room half an hour earlier and threatened about having planted bombs, which also was declared a hoax, senior police officials said.
The first call was received by the control room around 6 PM in which the caller asked for the personal number of former city police commissioner BS Bassi. When refused, he started demanding that he be connected to Bassi directly. But, when the operator refused to do so, he threatened about planting bombs.
“The number from which the call was made was found to be registered to an address in central Delhi’s Daryaganj. Teams were rushed there and thorough checks were conducted in an around
the area but no bomb was found,” DCP (Central) Parmaditya said.
It was declared a hoax call. The caller’s last location was traced to south-west Delhi’s Sagarpur area and teams were sent to apprehend him, a senior official said.