Deserted by wife, B'luru man makes hoax call about women bombers, gets arrested

Bengaluru: Bengaluru police on Saturday arrested a 32-year-old youth for sending them into a tizzy by making a hoax call claiming to have seen few women carry explosives into a temple in Annapoorneshwari Nagar in the city.

The man identified as Sunil Kumar placed a call to Annapoorneshwari Nagar Police at around 12 noon on Saturday and said that he had seen women, strapped with explosives enter the temple.

The police immediately swung into action and evacuated all the devotees from the temple. After a combing operation that lasted for two hours, did not yield any results the police realised that they had been tricked and tried to call the mobile number of the man who had tipped them, but found that it was switched off.

They managed to arrest Sunil after tracking his number but Sunil started blaming them for troubling him unnecessarily saying that he had only done what any responsible citizen would do. Since the investigation was going nowhere the police summoned Sunil’s father who informed them that he had been harassing random women after his wife deserted him.

A case has been registered against him under section 505 (causing public mischief), 507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication), 268 (public nuisance) and 290 (punishment for public nuisance) of the IPC.