Swift action by Vidhana Soudha police and arrested Kolar man within 24 hours in connection to Raj Bhavan bomb threat call

Pramesh S Jain

In a swift action the Vidhana Soudha police arrested a 34-year-old farmer from mulabagilu for making hoax call to NIA control informing that he had planted a bomb in Raj bhavan on Monday night.

The accused Bhaskar had come to Bengaluru and on the way back he decided to prank the police and searched in the Google for the NIA office number and called before boarding the bus to a temple in Andhra Pradesh .

The police who track down through tower location arrested the accused in chittoor in Andhra Pradesh .

Native of Vaddahalli village Bhaskar was aware of the hoax emails to schools and gathered the details of the police investigation through media.

He decided to play a prank on the police he said during the investigation.

We have taken him into Custody to ascertain the exact reason behind the act .