Two held in separate hoax bomb threat cases in Chennai

A antheral who called the constabulary power country claiming to person planted bombs successful a parkland and temple successful Maduravoyal has been arrested.

On Sunday (October 12, 2025) morning, a antheral called the constabulary power country from a mobile telephone and claimed that bombs had been planted astatine Pallavan Nagar Park successful Maduravoyal and astatine a adjacent temple. Following this, a constabulary squad from Maduravoyal constabulary station, on with unit from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) and the sniffer canine unit, conducted a thorough hunt of the premises. The menace turned retired to beryllium a hoax.

With the assistance of precocious method analysis, the constabulary traced and arrested the caller, identified arsenic Boopathy, 43, of Villupuram district, connected Sunday morning. The mobile telephone utilized to marque the telephone was seized from him.

Boopathy is simply a regular wage idiosyncratic successful Chennai. He made the hoax telephone to the constabulary power country portion nether the power of alcohol, the constabulary said.

Disabled antheral held, released connected presumption bail

In a abstracted lawsuit connected Sunday, the Teynampet constabulary presumption traced and arrested Ayyappan, 36, of Thiruporur, Chengalpattu district, who had called the constabulary power country and issued a menace claiming that a weaponry had been placed astatine the residence of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Chittaranjan Road.

Investigations revealed that Ayyappan, a idiosyncratic with a disability, earns a surviving by selling SIM cards. It besides came to airy that successful 2020, helium had been jailed successful a lawsuit registered astatine the Egmore constabulary presumption for issuing weaponry threats to the Koyambedu autobus terminus, Egmore railway station, and different locations.

Further inquiries revealed that Ayyappan, an alcoholic, had been repeatedly making prank and nuisance calls to assorted nationalist institutions and high-level authorities offices, claiming weaponry threats.

The constabulary said arsenic the accused is simply a idiosyncratic with a disablement and had made the telephone nether the power of alcohol, they counselled him and asked him not to repetition his actions. He was released connected presumption bail and sent location connected humanitarian grounds, they added.