Hoax bomb threat: Call IPS officer received from ‘number of NCP MLA’ traced to China

The Mumbai Police has found that the server from where its Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Praveen Padwal received a hoax bomb threat call purportedly from the cellphone number of an NCP MLA was located in China.

According to police, the ‘miscreant who made the phone call from China’ used a spoofing software to display the cellphone number of MLA Mane during the phone call to Padwal. Police will write to the Chinese government through a letter rogatory (LR) as per the procedure to get more information about the accused, said officials.

It was revealed during investigation that Mane’s cellphone was ‘actually not used’ to make the call, said an officer,