Man arrested from Noida for threatening to bomb Mumbai

The Mumbai Police on Saturday said that it has arrested a man from Uttar Pradesh’s Noida for threatening to bomb the Maharashtra capital.

The man, 51-year-old Ashwini Kumar, had on Friday sent a threat message to the official WhatsApp number of the Mumbai Traffic Police in the name of “Firoz”, reported The Indian Express.

The message claimed that Mumbai would be targeted by “human bombs” carrying 400 kg of explosives that had been planted in 34 vehicles. The blasts that would “shake the entire city”, it further said.

Claiming to be from an organisation named Lashkar-e-Jihadi, the message also said that 14 Pakistani terrorists had entered India, according to The Indian Express.

Following this, a case was registered at the Worli police station and the Traffic Police handed over all the messages to the Mumbai Crime Branch.

“We traced him to Noida in Uttar Pradesh,” an unidentified police officer was quoted as saying by The Hindu. “Our teams arrested him with the help of Gautam Buddha Nagar Police.”

Kumar has been a resident of Noida’s Sector 79 since 2020. He hails from Patliputra Colony in Bihar’s Patna.

On Saturday, the Mumbai Police said it had recovered the mobile phone and SIM card used by Kumar to send the threat message.

According to the first information report registered against him, Kumar allegedly sent the...

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