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CHENNAI: The cyber police here have arrested a youth in connection with a hoax bomb threat, which had delayed the President’s departure by three hours.
Perinbaraj aged 21-years hailing from Niligiris district of Tamil Nadu and working in G R T Thanga Maligai, a jewellery shop in the busy commercial area of T Nagar, here had made a call to the police control room on September 4, 2006 at about 10:30 pm, saying that there was a bomb planted in the flight in which the Governor of Tamil Nadu, Surjit Singh Barnala was scheduled to travel.
Even as there was no travel program of the Governor, the police department took it serious, as the President, A P J Abdul Kalam, was scheduled to leave for New Delhi from Chennai Airport around the same time.
The police, along with other security agencies, immediately swung into action and conducted a thorough check of all the baggages of the VVIP and the aircraft by BDDS and BCAS (Bureau of Civil Aviation Security) teams and sniffer dogs. The President’s aircraft took off for Delhi, three hours behind schedule, after security agencies found no threat to the aircraft.
A case was registered in this connection and a special team was formed to trace the caller. The Cyber Crime Cell arrested Perinbaraj for making the hoax call. The Cyber Crime Cell comes under the Crime Control Bureau (CCB) of the Greater Metropolitan police.
Talking to CyberMedia News, A Balu, Assistant Commissioner of Police, in-charge of the Cyber Crime Cell of CCB, said that the mystery of the caller had been solved within 72-hours of the incident taking place.
Detailing on the investigation process, Balu said that the call, which landed at the police control room, did not contain any number and it was known that it was from a mobile phone without any SIM card.
“Such calls made from mobile phones, are usually routed through the BSNL server switch to the control room. Each of these calls land up in our police control room log, and their numbers, time of call and the voice of the caller is recorded,” he informed.
Stating that the call landed without a number, other than the emergency call number 800, With the help of a software developed by a leading Indian software company, traced the service operator code.
“The traced telecom service provider code was found to be that of Tata Indicom and now we were sure about getting closer to the culprit,” he said adding that the service provider was asked to check their call logs on that said date and time.
Balu said: “We finally zeroed in on three numbers, one of a residence and two of a PCO. As finding the caller from a PCO is difficult, we first checked with the residence number and came to know that the call was only from one of the two PCOs.”
“Further, we went on to check the two PCOs, one of which was placed inside the jewellery shop. Incidentally, the shop had a CCTV installed. When we were viewing the recorded version tracking according to the time, we noticed, this young man picking up the phone and talking. There were two other people, standing next to him. We asked the shop owners to identify the youth and they brought Perinbaraj. After interrogation with the youth, he accepted to have made the call.” he said.
The Assistant Commissioner said that Perinbaraj had told during investigation that he wanted to make a comedy drama but landed in tragedy.
The youth, who had joined the jewellery shop only two months back as a sales trainee, is now booked under 506 (Criminal Intimidation) and 507 (Anonymous threat) under the Indian Penal Code and could get a minimum of three-years rigorous imprisonment.
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