Unable to pay the lawyer appointed for him by the court, a 52-year-old man, accused in two cheating cases, allegedly made a hoax call to the police claiming that a bomb had been planted in the court where the cases were being tried.
The police arrested him at his Nallasopara residence on Tuesday morning.
The police control room on Monday morning received a call from a landline number saying that a bomb had been planted in the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Borivali, and that it was going to go off in a short while.
“We found that the call had been made from a public telephone booth near the Grant Road railway station. We found a CCTV camera nearby which covered the telephone booth. A man was seen using the telephone at the time that the hoax call was received and we obtained stills capturing the man’s face,” said senior police inspector Subhash Sawant, Charkop unit, ATS.
