Bengaluru, April 27: The Bengaluru police on Saturday arrested retired army personnel for making a hoax call to police control room saying 19 terrorists had sneaked into Karnataka.
After receiving the call, Kolar and Bengaluru rural police formed a special squad and traced the call location and immediately swung into action. He was arrested from Avalahalli, in the outskirts of Bengaluru.
The caller according to the Karnataka DG-IGP, further claimed that the attacks will take place in trains. The letter by the Karnataka police official also intimated the presence of 19 terrorists in Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram.
The Karnataka DG had also alerted his counterparts, asking them to take immediate necessary action to prevent any untoward incident.
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