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FIR registered as Mumbai 5-star Lalit hotel gets hoax bomb threat: Rs 5 cr ransom demanded
MUMBAI: The Mumbai police have registered an FIR against unknown persons for making a bomb threat call to the 5-star Lalit Hotel, located in Suburban Mumbai, near the international airport.
According to an ANI news report, a prominent hotel in Mumbai received a hoax bomb threat from an unknown person, the Mumbai Police said today.
On Monday evening the hoax caller demanded Rs 5 crore to defuse the bombs and claimed there were bombs kept in the hotel at 4 different places. Police sources claimed it could also be a crank or harassment call as the entire episode seemed to amateur and not one by professional criminals.
“An unidentified person called the hotel and said that bombs have been kept at four places in the hotel and demanded Rs 5 crore to defuse them,” ANI quoted Mumbai Police as saying.
The Lalit Hotel in Mumbai received the threatening phone call on Monday around 6 pm. Following the threat call, the hotel administration immediately informed the police about it.
The police searched everywhere but they did not find anything suspicious. The Sahar police station registered a case against unknown persons under sections 385, 336 and 507 of the IPC and started an investigation, police told ANI.
Last month, two persons were arrested for making hoax calls about a person carrying bombs at Ambernath railway station in Mumbai.
The Kalyan Government Railway Police (GRP) made the arrests. In March, a man was arrested for allegedly making a false bomb blast threat on the campus of Mumbai University.