A phone call about a bomb planted on the Secunderabad-Belagavi special train proved to be a hoax, officials said on Thursday.
After receiving the call at Secunderabad railway station here Wednesday night, railway authorities swung into action.
Personnel of the Railway Police checked the entire train but found nothing suspicious. The phone call was received at around 9.30 p.m. from one Balaraju, a resident of Devarampalli village in Rangareddy district.
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He told police that he heard three men talking about the bomb being planted on the train. The checking continued till 11.15 p.m.
Train number 07336 was scheduled to depart Secunderabad railway station at 10.20 p.m. for Belagavi in Karnataka but the bomb threat delayed the departure by the about one-and-half hours.
The police would question Balaraju to check the veracity of his statement and identify the three men.
Earlier in this month Google’s Pune office received a bomb threat call on Monday, which turned out to be a hoax. The man who allegedly made the call was traced to Hyderabad and detained by the Telangana Police. A team of Mumbai Police has left for Telangana to bring the accused to Mumbai.
The police reportedly said the caller didn’t have a number for the Google office in Pune, so he dialed Google office headquarters in Mumbai and made the threatening call. When Mumbai Police were alerted to the call, they contacted their counterparts in Pune, who rushed to the multinational company’s office, located in a multi-story commercial building in Pune’s Mundhwa area.
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