Airstrike hoax for bombed actor dream

Ahmedabad: A 32-year-old man from Shahibaug was caught on November 4 for allegedly sending a fake warning to a TV channel about a religious site in Ahmedabad being bombed by a Rafale jet.

The mail received by the TV channel’s office in Mumbai was sent to Malad police, which approached the Ahmedabad crime branch.

According to the FIR registered with the Ahmedabad crime branch, Nilesh Parmar wrote in the mail that the money for the bombardment had been paid by someone in Ahmedabad.

Cops nabbed Parmar from Chandkheda. He told the cops that he had gone to the channel’s office in Mumbai to become an actor in 2013. He was denied entry to the office. So the hoax was his belated revenge.

Parmar has been booked under the charges of spreading fake information that might have provoked enmity between two religious communities.


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