Hoax Call
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Delhi school in Rohini area receives bomb threat email, investigation on
Delhi | Nov 29, 2024, 02:01 PM ISTDelhi: As per reports, the threat was later declared a hoax after a thorough search in the school premises.
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Dubai-bound plane receives bomb threat minutes before takeoff from IGI Airport: Official
India | Jun 18, 2024, 09:57 AM ISTA senior police official said an email containing a bomb threat against the Delhi to Dubai flight was received at the DIAL office of the IGI Airport. This prompted the official to check the entire flight.
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Bomb threat in West Delhi schools: Delhi Police requests to maintain peace amid hoax call chaos
Delhi | May 01, 2024, 02:21 PM ISTBomb threat in West Delhi schools: Panic gripped school students and parents early morning today after several schools in Delhi-NCR received bomb threats via email on Wednesday morning. The Ministry of Home Affairs said it appears to be a hoax call and that there was no need to panic.
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Mumbai airport receives hoax bomb call, police register case against unidentified caller
Maharashtra | Apr 27, 2024, 09:44 PM ISTMumbai news: The Mumbai International Airport Limited officials informed the bomb squad and all concerned security agencies thereafter, but nothing was found after the probe.
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Hoax bomb threat targets Delhi-Kolkata flight at IGI airport, echoes previous incident
Delhi | Feb 27, 2024, 11:33 AM ISTUpon thorough examination, officials determined the threat to be a hoax, with no credible danger posed. An officer involved in the investigation confirmed that the call was deemed bogus following enquiry.
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'25 people have come to Mumbai from Pakistan': Police receive bomb threat call, accuse arrested
Maharashtra | Oct 07, 2023, 02:50 PM ISTAccording to the police, the accused claimed that Seema Haider and other 25 people had come to Mumbai from Pakistan and a bomb blast would take place within 2-3 hours. Soon after the call, the police traced the caller and arrested him.
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Mumbai Police receives hoax call about bombs at Nepean Sea Road and Kamathipura
Maharashtra | Sep 05, 2023, 11:03 AM ISTThe same woman has called the police 38 times so far to inform them about similar deployment of bombs. Another such call was received during the investigation saying that a bomb is deployed in Kamathipura.
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"3 terrorists entered city': Mumbai Police receives hoax call; step up vigil
Maharashtra | Apr 08, 2023, 10:17 PM ISTAccording to the officials, the police's main control room received a call on Friday in which the caller claimed that a probable terrorist had entered the city.
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Puducherry police gets hoax call about bomb at Raj Nivas, Railway station
India | Jan 19, 2020, 11:37 PM ISTThe Puducherry police went into a tizzy after a man called the control room on Sunday and said explosives would go off in the next 24 hours in Raj Nivas and the Railway station.
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Shooting reported at Northwestern University in US turns out to be 'swatting' hoax
World | Mar 15, 2018, 08:19 AM ISTEvanston Police said a call to police reporting shots fired at Engelhart Hall, a graduate student residence, was a "swatting" hoax. The term describes when someone calls in a false report in the hopes of prompting a SWAT team to respond.
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'Bom-Del' confused with 'bomb hai'; Indian-origin CEO of US firm held
India | Jan 02, 2018, 06:31 PM ISTThe flyer later claimed he wanted to know the status of a ‘Bom-Del’ flight but was misunderstood by the telephone operator at the other end as him having said “bomb hai (there is a bomb)”.
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Drunkard calls up police, says, “will kill Kejriwal as soon as he enters Delhi”
National | Oct 27, 2016, 10:50 AM ISTAn unidentified person on Wednesday called up Delhi Police’s emergency number 100 threatening to kill Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
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Hoax call from 'Mumbai' triggers bomb scare in Sindh Governor's House
World | Oct 24, 2015, 10:39 PM ISTIslamabad: A hoax call allegedly traced to the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, claimed that a bomb had been placed on the premises of the Sindh Governor House in Pakistan, the media reported on Saturday.Bomb Disposal
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Bomb threat: Two arrested for making hoax calls
India | Dec 18, 2014, 09:15 PM ISTGurgaon: Two persons were arrested for making hoax calls about bombs being placed at certain places in the city, sending authorities into a tizzy to secure the areas. While one of them had called Gurgaon
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'Indian-origin nurse in Kate hoax call was found hanging'
World | Dec 13, 2012, 06:00 PM ISTLondon, Dec 13: An Indian-origin nurse, who died after being duped by a prank call made by two Australian DJs to a UK hospital treating a pregnant Kate Middleton, was found hanging at her staff
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Nurse who died after Kate Middleton hoax call was from India
World | Dec 08, 2012, 08:12 PM ISTLondon, Dec 8: British police say that a nurse who was found dead days after she took a hoax call about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was originally from India.Scotland Yard said Saturday that 46-year-old
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Passenger's bomb hoax call grounds flight at IGI airport
India | Jun 18, 2012, 07:55 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 18: A bomb hoax call by a disgruntled passenger forced authorities to ground an Ahmedabad-bound Spicejet plane just as it was preparing to take off with 174 passengers on board at the