KASUR: A man was arrested on the charge of making a hoax call to police about a bomb planted in the Karachi-bound Farid Express on Tuesday.

According to complainant ASI Zafar Iqbal of Kanganpur police, an unidentified man made a call to police emergency 15 on Monday night, informing that a bomb had been planted in the last bogie of Farid Express that was coming from Lahore.

Police as well as other law enforcing agencies rushed to the Kanganpur Railway Station where they were told that Farid Express would reach Kanganpur at 8am.

When the train arrived, the police, bomb squad and personnel of sensitive agencies checked all bogies. Panic spread at the railway station and among the passengers when the security personnel launched a search in the train. However, the personnel did not find anything and the train was given a go-ahead after a search of about one hour.

Later, Kanganpur police arrested the man with the help of call data of the mobile phone used by him. He was identified as Muhammad Waseem.

Police claimed the suspect had admitted to his crime, telling them that his motive was to implicate someone else in a fake case as he had used that person’s mobile SIM card to make the hoax call. Police lodged a case against Waseem under The Telegraphic Act 1885.

Published in Dawn, December 22nd, 2021

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