An FIR has been registered in opposition to an unidentified individual in reference to a menace call made to Taj Hotel right here, police stated on Sunday.
The caller, claiming himself to be a member of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit, had stated he was calling from Karachi and threatened to blow up the lodge in Colaba and Taj Land’s End lodge in Bandra, after which safety at each the locations was beefed up on Tuesday.
The FIR was registered on Friday underneath sections 506 (felony intimidation) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code, a Colaba police station official stated.
The Taj lodge was one of many institutions targetted by Pakistani terrorists in the course of the 26/11 terror assault on Mumbai.
Police had stated that separate menace calls had been made on late Monday evening.
The two lodges, run by the Tata group-promoted Indian Hotel Company Limited (IHCL) are closed for industrial enterprise at current due to the coronavirus pandemic and serve solely choose patrons.
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