Mumbai:
A bomb menace was obtained on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s buyer care quantity yesterday, throughout which the caller claimed to be the “CEO of Lashkar-e-Taiba”, sources mentioned.
The Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group had carried out the 2008 Mumbai assaults, one of many deadliest terror assaults in India.
The name got here on the helpline quantity round 11 am on Saturday and he threatened to explode the central financial institution with a bomb, they mentioned. He mentioned he was the “CEO” of the banned group and sang a music over the cellphone earlier than issuing the menace, sources mentioned.
Mumbai Police has filed a case and is making an attempt to search out the caller.
The bomb menace comes amid a collection of hoax calls to airways that grounded a whole lot of flights over the previous two months, resulting in a priority for aviators and safety companies.
An IndiGo flight from Nagpur to Kolkata made an emergency touchdown in Raipur on Thursday after a bomb menace that turned out to be pretend – this was the newest such incident.
The central authorities has taken up the problem with nice concern and warned social media platforms to behave towards the unfold of such misinformation or lose exemptions that they take pleasure in in India.
The Information Technology Ministry had mentioned in an advisory that such bomb hoaxes not solely have an effect on the residents but additionally destabilise the nation’s financial safety.
One of the bomb hoaxes final month turned out to be a plot by a college dropout in Chhattisgarh to border his buddy.