MUMBAI/NAGPUR: Mumbai Police employees on Sunday ran a search operation in the Maharashtra government secretariat here following a caller, after recognized as a farmer out of Nagpur district, also claimed a bomb had been planted on the construction, which was be a hoax telephone, officials explained.
“About 12.
40 after, the Disaster Management Control, Mantralaya, also received a call from an unknown caller claiming a bomb had been planted over the Mantralaya,” Mumbai Police said in a statement.
Teams of police staff together with the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) achieved the place and ran a search procedure, but it was to be hoax phone, ” it stated.
“Search performance in the Mantralaya assumptions is finished.
No questionable object was discovered,” it added.
The caller has been tracked to Nagpur in east Maharashtra who was become a farmer who supposedly chose to draw the interest of this government for his repeated pleas requiring reimbursement for his won property, a Nagpur rural police officer said.
“The farmer has been arrested in just two hours prior to creating the hoax telephone.
He confessed to creating the telephone and stated that for quite a very long time, he had been concerned about the settlement of the acquired property.
However, nobody has been listening to his pleas.
He also made this call to attract the interest of the authorities and the government,” the officer stated.
The farmer is known as Sagar Mandhre (40).
Mandhre had possessed seven acres of property in Makardhokda region of Umred tehsil at Nagpur district.
“He offered some portion of the property to a person while a part was obtained by the Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) in 1997.
The farmer told that the Umred authorities the WCL hadn’t issued reimbursement to his won property,” the officer stated.
He explained the farmer claimed he was struggling with a severe bone disorder and requires funds for medical therapy.
The farmer claimed he was trying hard because the past two years to find the reimbursement for his property and written many letters to the government, the officer said.
Previously, Mandhre had issued threats to place himself on fire Independence Day and Republic Day on several events, he further added.
Maharashtra: Bomb scare at Mantralaya turns out to be hoax; farmer held
