A 36-year-old Indian citizen who was deported from Australia in 2010 has been arrested for allegedly making bomb hoax calls in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
Police claimed Ruksar Ahmed, a tailor from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh was arrested on Friday. He allegedly admitted to making a hoax call at a passport office in New Delhi on 22nd May.
The office at New Delhi’s ITO had to be evacuated following a phone call stating there was a bomb there which eventually turned out to be a hoax.
Deputy Commissioner of Police for North-East Delhi, Atul Kumar Thakur, said Mr Ahmed made the call out of frustration after his three applications for a passport were declined since he already possessed one.
“He did not want to stay in India but his father had confiscated his passport after he got deported from Australia in 2010,” The Hindu quoted Mr Thakur as saying.
Mr Ahmed allegedly told the police during his questioning that he travelled to Australia in 2008 on a visitor visa but was deported two years later for having overstayed in the country.
Since then he had been trying to travel overseas for work but his father Mukhtar Ahmed confiscated his passport, police said.
Police also said Mr Ahmed made a hoax call to a police station in Delhi, claiming there was a bomb at the premises.
He was arrested after investigators managed to trace both the calls back to two different public call offices operated by private businesses; authorities claimed the operators at both the businesses identified Mr Ahmed as the caller.
