Man held for hoax bomb call to mosque in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Karnataka police on Monday, arrested a man who made a hoax bomb call to a mosque in the Shivajinagar locality in Bengaluru, police said.

According to police, the accused, identified as 37-year-old Syed Mohammad Anwar from Maharashtra, was raising donations for madrassas from mosques.

After collecting the donation from the Azam mosque near Russell Market in Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar locality, he had sought permission to stay back the night but was denied.

Upset over the denial, Anwar then boarded the bus to Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh.

Upon crossing Devanahalli, he made a phone call to the emergency helpline number 122 stating that terrorists had planted a bomb in the mosque.

The incident that took place late at night on July 5, created panic and tension among the local residents and police.

The search operation was carried out late in the night.

Officials of the fire force and emergency services, police department, bomb disposal squad, and dog squad had rushed to the spot and conducted search operations which turned out to be a hoax.

Shivajinagar police registered the case in this regard and nabbed the accused when he had gone to Mehboobnagar from Kurnool.

With inputs from IANS