Man makes hoax call after dad denies him cash to booze

Thanjavur: Police arrested a 29-year-old man for making a hoax bomb threat call to the police control room in Kumbakonam on Saturday. Police said he called the control room and claimed that bombs would blow up on the railway tracks near Kumbakonam.

Police identified the accused as H Nizar Ahammed, son of Haja Najimudeen, a resident of Aaduthurai Chetti Street near Kumbakonam.

Nizar Ahammed called the control room using a mobile phone around 11 pm on Saturday and said that he had planted bombs on the railway tracks at Aaduthurai and Avaniyapuram and the bombs would blow within few hours. The caller abruptly cut the call, police said.

Control room police alerted Thiruneelakudi police from where a team rushed to the spot and conducted search along the tracks in association with the Railway police till the morning. However, the threat turned to be a hoax.

After tracking down the mobile phone number and the SIM card police zeroed in on Haja Najimudeen. On questioning, he said that it was his son Nizar who had made the call to the control room using his mobile phone in an inebriated condition. The provocation was that he had refused to give money to Nizar to consume liquor, police said.

Police arrested Nizar and an inquiry is on.


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