Police personnel keep vigil as part of crowd control measures for the immersion of Lord Ganesh idols as the Ganesh Chaturthi festival concludes, in Mumbai on September 5, 2025.
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The Mumbai police on Saturday (September 6, 2025) arrested a 50-year-old man from Noida for sending threat messages to blow up human bombs in Mumbai. The man, Ashwinikumar Sureshkumar Supra, said he would blow up the city by using over 400kgs of RDX.
Mumbai police further added that preliminary information indicated that it was a hoax, but said an investigation is under way.
The accused will be brought to Mumbai on Saturday (September 6, 2025) and will be produced in the court.
The arrest was made within 24 hours of the registration of the case.
On Friday (September 5, 2025), a senior Mumbai police official said that the message received on the helpline number of the Mumbai traffic police on Thursday (September 4, 2025), threatening to blow up Mumbai, was a hoax message.
“We are taking all the precautions. As per preliminary findings of our investigation, it was a hoax message,” he said. The Mumbai Crime Branch, as well as three teams of the local police station, have been probing the matter, even as a First Information Report has been registered in the case.
“Messages were received on Thursday at 2 p.m. claiming that Mumbai will be blown up. The messages had also used foul language against the Mumbai police,” a police officer from the Worli station said. The messages allegedly claimed that the city would be blown up using RDX and that bombs had allegedly been planted, a senior police inspector said.
Published – September 06, 2025 09:38 am IST
