Man held for Gurgaon bomb threats

Sumedha Sharma

Tribune News Service

Gurgaon, December 18

A man working in a shop selling dry fruits was arrested today for making bomb threat calls for two consecutive days to police control rooms in Gurgaon and Delhi. He said he wanted to have fun and was testing police alertness, the police said.

Sunny Sharma (29), who hails from Shiv Vihar area near Karala in northwest Delhi, worked as a salesman at a dry fruits outlet at Vyapar Kendra in the posh Sushant Lok area of Gurgaon. He was living in a rented accommodation in Jharsa village near Sector 32.

The city police, working to solve the mystery of yesterday’s hoax call, today got information from the Delhi police that its control room had received a call where about a bomb planted in the city’s DLF Arcadia building in Sector 49 here. Within minutes the building was evacuated and the area cordoned off as the bomb squad launched a search. After an hour-long search, the call turned out to be a hoax.

The police had on Wednesday received a similar call about a bomb being planted at the HUDA City Centre Metro station and a market in Gurgaon which too were found to be hoaxes. Both the calls were made from the same number. He was booked under sections 121 and 507 of the IPC and 66A of the IT Act that may put him behind bars for 7-10 years.

Sharma, who is married and a father of two children, “wanted to check police alertness and did all this for fun”, Gurgaon commissioner of police Navdeep Singh Virk told reporters.