Hoax bomb threat to CM: Private security guard arrested from Coimbatore

Coimbatore: Police arrested the security guard of under construction residential complex here today for calling to the police control room and issuing a hoax bomb threat against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.

According to police, an unknown person called the police control room today morning and threatened that a bomb would explode during the Independence Day parade at Chennai. He also threatened that Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami will not be able to hoist the flag today.

On investigation, police found that Mariraja, a security guard of an under construction residential complex near Idhaya Deivam Maligai here. Mariraja hails from Tirunelveli.

Race Course police arrested Maririaja and booked him under sections 294b, 504, 507 of IPC. Police are probing the reason behind the hoax and whether anyone else is involved in this.