Mumbai Police reported on Friday that the city is put under high alert after a threat call in which the caller said 34 "human bombs" carrying "400 kg of RDX" have been planted in 34 vehicles, warning of a blast that would "shake the entire city." The call was made on the traffic police helpline.
The authorities reported the threat was made by an outfit named Lashkar-e-Jehadi in the run-up to Anant Chaturdashi, with security tightened in the entire state of Maharashtra. The message stated that the 34 cars packed with human bombs and explosives might kill one crore individuals.
On Monday, a 43-year-old man was arrested for having allegedly made a false bomb threat to a railway station in Thane district. The Government Railway Police (GRP) said that the accused Rupesh Madhukar Ranpise had phoned the police helpline at about 4 pm on Sunday and said he had left a bomb at Kalwa railway station, PTI reported.
This is not the first case of bomb hoaxes in the city. In August, an email threat of a bomb blast was sent to the ISKCON Temple in Girgaon, South Mumbai. Temple authorities instantly alerted the police, who carried out a rigorous search with the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS). The search did not yield any explosives, and the threat was ruled as a hoax. The temple had also received a similar email threat in September.
On July 25, Mumbai Police also received a call threatening a bomb at the Terminal 2 of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA). A thorough check of the terminal did not find any suspicious luggage.
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