Hyderabad engineer held for hoax bomb call to Google office in BKC

As per the police, the accused had called up Google’s BKC office late on Sunday night and said that a bomb had been placed in the tech giant’s Pune office.

Mumbai: An engineer from Hyderabad was arrested on Monday for allegedly making a hoax call to the Google India office, Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), claiming that a bomb had been planted in their Pune office. The accused – identified as Shivanand Venkat Babu – is a resident of Chand Nagar, Hyderabad.

Hyderabad engineer held for hoax bomb call to Google office in BKC

As per the police, Babu, 42, called up Google’s BKC office late on Sunday night and said that a bomb had been placed in the tech giant’s Pune office.

“The information was relayed to the police station and we obtained the mobile number from which the call was made. Using its registration details and cellular location mapping, we ascertained that the caller was in Chand Nagar. Accordingly, a team was dispatched to Hyderabad on Sunday night itself,” said a police officer with the BKC police.

Working in collaboration with the local police, the team picked up Babu for inquiries in the early hours of Monday morning. During his preliminary questioning, Babu claimed that he was calling his brother and ended up calling Google’s Mumbai office by mistake. However, he was unable to offer a satisfactory explanation as to why he spoke about bombs being planted at Google’s office in Pune while supposedly talking to his brother, and was placed under arrest.