RBI Receives Bomb Threat: Caller Claims To Be 'CEO Of Lashkar-e-Taiba'; Mumbai Police Probing

A bomb threat was issued to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) helpline on Saturday, with the caller claiming to be the "CEO of Lashkar-e-Taiba."

The Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, one of India's most devastating terrorist incidents.

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The call was made to the helpline at around 11 am on Saturday, during which the caller threatened to bomb the central bank. He identified himself as the "CEO" of the proscribed group and reportedly sang a song before delivering the threat, according to sources.

Mumbai Police has registered a case and is actively working to trace the caller.

The threat has raised concerns amidst a spate of hoax bomb calls, including recent threats targeting airlines, which disrupted hundreds of flights over the past two months, alarming aviation and security agencies.

In the latest such incident, an IndiGo flight from Nagpur to Kolkata made an emergency landing in Raipur on Thursday after receiving a bomb threat, which was later confirmed as a hoax.

The central government has expressed serious concern over these incidents and has warned social media platforms to take action against the spread of misinformation or risk losing exemptions granted under Indian law.

The Ministry of Information Technology stated in an advisory that bomb hoaxes not only distress the public but also undermine the country's economic security.

Last month, one such hoax turned out to be orchestrated by a school dropout in Chhattisgarh as part of a scheme to implicate his friend.