12 January,2023 12:33 PM IST | Mumbai | Asif Rizvi
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A 34-year-old man from Gujarat was arrested by the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) for allegedly making a bomb threat call to the Dhirubhai Ambani School in Mumbai's BKC area, the police said.
According to the police, the school had received a threat call on Tuesday and the caller, a driver by profession had identified himself as Vikram Singh Jhala from Gujarat.
On the call, he told the complainant, an employee from the school that he had planted a time bomb in the school and disconnected the call, the police said.
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Sometime later, he made another call and he further said that by his act of making a threat call, the police would nab him and he would be famous on social media, the police added.
An official said, "On the complaint, an FIR under Sections 505 (1)(B) and 506 of IPC was registered by the BKC police."
During investigations, it was learned that the caller had made a call from a mobile number, the officials began to analyze technical clues and found that the caller was based in Morbi, Gujarat. A team was sent to Gujarat from where he was nabbed, the police said.