Man held in Noida for ‘34 human bombs, RDX' terror threat in Mumbai

A man was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Noida for allegedly sending bomb threats in Mumbai, threatening to “shake” the entire city with multiple human bombs placed across Mumbai. According to the police FIR, the accused's old enmity with a friend is behind him making terror threat calls in Mumbai.

The man, identified as 51-year-old Ashwini Kumar, hails from Bihar's Patliputra. He had been living in Noida for the past five years, and was an astrologer by profession, police said. Police have seized the man's phone



and SIM card and he is being brought to Mumbai from Noida.

His arrest came hours after the Mumbai Traffic Police's official WhatsApp number received a message threatening that there were 34 “human bombs” planted across the city, and that 14 Pakistani terrorists had entered India.

"The organisation, claiming to be 'Lashkar-e-Jihadi', says that 14 Pakistani terrorists have entered India. The threat message further states that 400 kgs of RDX will be used in the blast," the Mumbai Police said.