Habitual hoax bomb threat caller lands in police net in Chennai

COIMBATORE: A 38-year-old man from Kuniyamuthur was arrested for calling up the state police master control room in Chennai on Sunday night, stating he had planted bombs on Marina beach and they would go off soon.
Identifying the accused as Peer Mohammed, a resident of Senthamil Nagar near Sugunapuram in the city, police said he was arrested four times in the past for making hoax bomb threat calls to the control room.
An investigation officer said, “Mohammed made all the calls under the influence of alcohol. On Sunday night, he called up the state police master control room four times and officials who attended the call were sure that they were hoax bomb threat calls. He had told them that the bombs would go off when he makes the 100th call.”
Immediately, the officials traced the caller’s whereabouts and alerted the city police, who arrested Mohammed in the early hours of Monday and handed him over to the Chennai city police.
It was in November 2017 that Mohammed made his first hoax bomb call. He called up the city police control room in an inebriated condition, stating he had planted bombs at Kuniyamuthur and surrounding areas.
In the second hoax call on June 25, 2018 too, he said he had planted bombs in and around Kuniyamuthur and challenged police to trace the bombs. He called up the control room again on July 23, 2018, stating he had planted bombs at Kuniyamuthur. He was arrested and jailed on all the three occasions.
In January 2020, Mohammed had called up the master control room, stating he would become a human bomb to destroy Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital for denying him treatment. The Race Course police had arrested him in the case.