One arrested for hoax call of planting bomb in trains
CO GRP Kunwar Prabhat Singh stated that GRP Cantt in-charge Rajol Nagar and his team arrested Shukla, a native of Machhlishehar and now settled in Mumbai, at Varanasi Junction (Cantt railway station).
The mobile phone and SIM card used to make the hoax calls were also recovered from his possession. Following the call, the GRP Cantt thoroughly checked both the trains on June 2, causing inconvenience to hundreds of passengers, said the CO.
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