Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, Feb 13: Google’s office in Pune city received a threat call stating that a bomb has been planted in the premises, which later turned out to be a hoax, said police on Monday.
A caller threatened Mumbai's BKC office about placing a bomb at the Pune Google office. Caller told that his name is Panayam Shivanand & is from Hyderabad. Nothing suspicious was found in probe. The caller has been detained & case filed against him: Mumbai Police
— ANI (@ANI) February 13, 2023
As per information, the caller was identified as Panayam Shivanand, who lives in Hyderabad. The man was traced to Hyderabad and has been detained by the Telangana Police. A team of Mumbai Police has left for Telangana to bring the accused to Mumbai.
Police said the caller did not have the number of the Google office in Pune, so he dialled Google office headquarters in Mumbai and made the threatening call.
“The office, located on the 11th floor of a multi-storey commercial building in Pune’s Mundhwa area, received a call late Sunday night that a bomb was kept in the office premises,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone V) Vikrant Deshmukh was quoted by PTI as saying.
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After receiving the threat call, Google filed a complaint at Mumbai’s BKC police station. A case has been registered against the caller by BKC Police under Section 505(1)(b) and 506(2) of IPC.
After Mumbai Police received the information about the call, they connected with their counterparts in Pune who rushed to the multinational company’s office located in a multi-storey commercial building in Pune’s Mundhwa area. The Pune police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad carried out extensive searches but did not find anything suspicious.
Further investigation into the matter is underway.
