Chennai: A 38 year-old man has been
arrested for issuing a bomb threat to the Secretariat here,
police said on Saturday.
C Balamurugan of Dindigul was arrested by the Cyber Cell
wing of Chennai police.
The man had sent an SMS to A Chandrasekaran, Superintendent
of Police Coastal Security Group saying a bomb would go off at
the Secretariat on February 24 and challenged police to
prevent it.
"On investigation it was ascertained that the man was using
a bogus SIM card with a false address in Madurai district," a
police release here said.
He had sent the SMS in 'a state of frustration due to his
debt,' it said, adding he was arrested and remanded to custody
on Friday.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, February 18, 2012, 23:39