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Youth held for making bomb threat call

L. Srikrishna

It was made from a phone outside a jewellery showroom in T. Nagar

BREAKTHROUGH: Chennai City Police Commissioner Letika Saran displaying the photograph of Perinbaraj at a press conference in Chennai on Wednesday. — Photo: D. Gopalakrishnan

CHENNAI: A 21-year-old youth working in a jewellery shop here was remanded to custody on Wednesday after he confessed to having made the bomb threat call to the police control room on Monday night, which resulted in a thorough search of the President's special aircraft.

At a press conference, Director-General of Police D. Mukerjee said R. Perinbaraj of Kuttimani Nagar in the Nilgiris district made the call. Police inquiries revealed that he did it "for fun" and narrated it to friends.

The Chennai City Traffic Control Room (South), which received the call, had the number 800 reflected in the caller ID equipment. Scientific investigation and latest technology available with the cyber team helped them solve the case.

It was found that the caller had dialled from a landline phone. With the help of the service provider, it was identified as a PCO landline number. Subsequently, when the team zeroed in on the locality, it found that the phone was kept outside a jewellery showroom on Usman Road, T. Nagar. What enabled the team to speed up the investigation was the CCTV fitted outside the shop. The timing of the call and the person who had made it were `matched' and the youth secured with the assistance of the jewellers.

Complimenting Police Commissioner Letika Saran and her team for solving the case in record time, Mr. Mukerjee said digital technology would be introduced in city police control rooms shortly.

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