Chennai: Police on Monday arrested two persons including a software engineer for making hoax bomb threats to police control room about explosives at the city airport on Sunday night. The arrested duo, R. Deepu Anand (29) and K. Sakthi Saravanan (28), were in an inebriated condition, police said.
Police said that the control room received a call around 9 pm and the person on the other line said that Sakthi Saravanan informed him about a bomb in the city airport and cut the call. Police teams immediately swung into action and traced the location of the call.
Pallikaranai police detained the duo around 10 pm and took them to the police station for investigations. Deepu Anand is a native of Koppampatti in Thurayur, Tiruchy, and is an engineering graduate. His friend, Sakthi Saravanan is a resident of Jalladanpaettai near Pallavaram and works at a software firm in Sholinganallur. Preliminary probe revealed that Deepu had asked Sakthi to get him a job at the airport after Sakthi told him he has contacts there. He had also paid cash to Sakthi for the same.
However, Sakthi couldn’t act on his promise at the earliest. Meanwhile, on Sunday night, the duo had met for a drinking session with friends when Deepu questioned Sakthi about the job. Sakthi had made snide remarks after which and enraged Deepu took Sakthi’s phone and made a hoax threat to the police control room, an investigating officer said. Sakthi too had made similar allegations on Deepu’s name.
