Bengaluru, April 27
A bomb blast call that sent police in four southern states into a tizzy turned out to be a hoax call made by a drunken man, police sources said on Saturday.
The caller was Sundar Murthy, a 60-year-old man arrested for raising false alarm, officials said.
Murthy is believed to have called up a police control room in Bengaluru to alert them about 19 militants currently holed up in Tamil Nadu who were planning to bomb cities, trains and buses in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Police immediately put the states on high alert. Meanwhile, investigators traced the call to Avalahalli near here.
Murthy is believed to have made the call drunk.
