‘Phone store employee made bomb hoax calls’
Worker sent on judicial remand after admitting to making calls ‘for fun’.
LAHORE:
A mobile phone shop employee has been arrested and sent on judicial remand for making hoax bomb calls that prompted two evacuations of Hafeez Centre last month.
The police said that Naveed Khawar, a resident of Nisbet Road, Gowalmandi, had admitted making the hoax calls. He was arrested on Wednesday and sent on judicial remand on Thursday. The police also have the SIM through which one of the hoax calls was made.
Hafeez Centre had to be evacuated twice on September 16 at noon and at 4pm after the calls reporting that there was a bomb in the building were made to Rescue 15. The shops were later shut early. An FIR was lodged against an unidentified man under Section 25 D of the Telegraph Act.
Gulberg Station House Officer (SHO) Zulfiqar Butt told The Express Tribune that police had traced the second call to a mobile phone belonging to a man named Mehmood, who also worked at a phone shop. He told the police that he had lent his phone to his friends Ali and Naveed Khawar on the day of the incident. The police then picked up Ali and Khawar and the latter admitted to making the calls, said the sub inspector.
He said that the first hoax call had been made from a public call office (PCO) opposite Hafeez Centre and an employee at the PCO had confirmed that Khawar had used their phone on the day of the incident. He said that Khawar had told police that his only motive for making the calls was “to have some fun”. He said that Ali and Mehmood had been released.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 7th, 2011.
A mobile phone shop employee has been arrested and sent on judicial remand for making hoax bomb calls that prompted two evacuations of Hafeez Centre last month.
The police said that Naveed Khawar, a resident of Nisbet Road, Gowalmandi, had admitted making the hoax calls. He was arrested on Wednesday and sent on judicial remand on Thursday. The police also have the SIM through which one of the hoax calls was made.
Hafeez Centre had to be evacuated twice on September 16 at noon and at 4pm after the calls reporting that there was a bomb in the building were made to Rescue 15. The shops were later shut early. An FIR was lodged against an unidentified man under Section 25 D of the Telegraph Act.
Gulberg Station House Officer (SHO) Zulfiqar Butt told The Express Tribune that police had traced the second call to a mobile phone belonging to a man named Mehmood, who also worked at a phone shop. He told the police that he had lent his phone to his friends Ali and Naveed Khawar on the day of the incident. The police then picked up Ali and Khawar and the latter admitted to making the calls, said the sub inspector.
He said that the first hoax call had been made from a public call office (PCO) opposite Hafeez Centre and an employee at the PCO had confirmed that Khawar had used their phone on the day of the incident. He said that Khawar had told police that his only motive for making the calls was “to have some fun”. He said that Ali and Mehmood had been released.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 7th, 2011.