Mumbai: Three terrorists have reached Mumbai via Dubai, a person told the Mumbai Police Control Room, the police said on Saturday.
The caller, who identified himself as Raja Thonge, said that the terrorists who arrived early on Friday morning belong to Pakistan. Thonge, who called the control room on Friday, identified one of the terrorists is Mujeeb Sayyed and gave the police his mobile number.
The identity of the caller is yet to be confirmed and his motive is still not clear, according to police sources.
Number from which the caller had called switched off
Police personnel sprang into action on receiving the call and the Mumbai Crime Branch traced and interrogated Mujeeb Sayyed, who is from Maharashtra, but did not find anything suspicious about him. The number from which the caller had called is switched off and police are trying other means to track him.
A Mumbai Police officer said that as the police does not take any such call lightly, officers have been asked to be on alert. If the information given by the caller is not found to be correct, action will be taken against him, the police officer said.
8 bomb threat calls this year
Earlier this year, eight calls threatening bomb blasts were received in Mumbai and five people have been arrested in this connection. On March 1, an unknown person had called the Mumbai Police Control and said that there would be a blast in Kurla in the next 10 minutes before disconnecting the call. The police had searched the area but had not found anything suspicious there.
In 2022, 15 hoax calls were received. Of these, FIRs were registered in nine cases. In six cases the callers were minors and some were mentally ill.
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