Google’s Mumbai office received a threat call on Monday stating that there was a bomb planted at the tech giant’s Pune office, according to police. One person has been arrested in Hyderabad.
According to PTI, Google’s Pune office was put on alert for a brief period following the threat call that turned out to be a hoax, police said adding that Pune police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad reached the spot and carried out extensive searches.
Google’s office located at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai received a call at 7.54 pm on Sunday that a bomb was kept at the company’s Pune office, located on the 11th floor of a multi-storey commercial building in Mundhwa area, Pune an official told PTI.
“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 said.
The man who allegedly made the call admitted that he called when he was in an inebriated state. He has been traced to Hyderabad and apprehended from there, police added.
The company officials reportedly lodged a complaint with the BKC police who registered an FIR against the then unidentified person Indian Penal Code Sections 505(1)(B) (intent to cause, or which is likely to cause, fear or alarm to public) and 506 (criminal intimidation).
(With PTI Inputs)
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