Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Police have arrested a person on charges of making a hoax call to the Police Control Room to claim that anonymous persons had placed a bomb in the State Government Secretariat, police said on Monday.
On Sunday night, around at 11 PM, the Police Control Room received the anonymous call from a man hailing from Maranellur, who was taken into custody within hours with the support of the Cyber Police, sources said on Monday.
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"The man is being questioned and he seems to be mentally unstable. He claimed that he made the call after he got a message in this regard in his WhatsApp number."
A large number of police, the bomb detection squad and the sniffer dogs were deployed to search for the explosives. Later, they declared the call as a hoax after a couple of hours of search. (UNI)
