Man detained for making hoax bomb threat in Kovai

Police on Wednesday detained a man on charges of making a hoax bomb threat in Coimbatore city.
The police control room in Chennai received a threat from an unidentified person on Wednesday evening, claiming that a bomb had been planted in a bus stand at Gandhipuram in Coimbatore.
The Coimbatore City Police were alerted, following which multiple teams were sent to all the busy bus stands at Gandhipuram. Teams from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) and dog squad of the city police were also deployed.
They carried out intensive checks, scanning abandoned bags and other objects at the central bus stand, the mofussil bus stand, the SETC bus stand and a few other locations at Gandhipuram. However, they could not locate any suspicious objects.
Meanwhile, the Kattoor police and the cybercrime station in the city launched simultaneous investigations to track the origin of the bomb threat. Police personnel identified the number from which the threat had come and took the suspected caller into custody.
A police officer said that a person aged a little over 40 was detained in connection with the incident.
As per preliminary investigation, the caller was employed as a security guard in the city. He claimed to have been taking treatment for depression for several years and made the hoax call in a frustrated state of mind.