Mumbai Police nabs man who threatened to blow up Bandra church

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 2 : The Mumbai Police nabbed a person who allegedly threatened to blow up Mount Mary Church in Bandra area, police said on Monday.
According to the police the accused was arrested from Kolkata after he sent a mail threatening to blow up the Mount Mary Church.
The police traced the accused's location by tracking the IP address and arrested him.
Mumbai Police further informed that the motive of the accused in sending those mail is yet to be ascertained and will be known only after the enquiry.
On December 30, the Mount Mary church in Bandra received a threatening email warning of an attack by the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba, informed police officials.
Police registered a case u/s 505(3) of IPC against unknown persons.
The police officials later in the day informed that another email was received following the first one where the sender claimed to be the mother of the child who allegedly sent the first threat email.
"In it, the mother apologized saying that her child is mentally ill so he sent such a message," informed police officials.
In a separate incident on the same day, the Mumbai Police control room received an anonymous call on Friday night saying that there will be explosions in Mumbai on New Year's Eve.
The caller identified himself as Azhar Hussain from Uttar Pradesh and said that he has weapons and RDX.
Acting on the call, a team from the Azad Maidan Police station immediately started the investigation and arrested the caller. The police later found out that the call was a hoax, and arrested the caller.
The police revealed that the accused caller was identified as Narendra Kavle and he had made this call in an inebriated condition.
Further investigations are underway in both cases, the police have said.