Mail claiming Bomb Blast at Salman Khan's Galaxy Apartment put Mumbai Police on High Alert; Police Scanned Actor’s Apartment for Four Hours

A shocking mail from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad put the Mumbai Police on high alert. A 16-year-old boy sent a hoax mail to the Bandra Police claiming that a bomb is scheduled to be a blast at Salman Khan’s Galaxy Apartments in Bandra.

The email read “Bandra me Galaxy, Salman Khan ke ghar par agle 2 ghante me blast hoga, rok sakte ho to rok lo (There will be a blast at Galaxy, Salman Khan’s house in the next two hours. Try to stop it if you can)”, as reported by Hindustan Times.

The email was sent on December 4, post which the commissioner of police Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma, deputy commissioner of police (zone 9) Paramjit Singh Dahiya, senior inspector (PI), Bandra police station Vijayalaxmi Hiremath, along with the bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) rushed to Galaxy Apartments to detect the explosive.

Salman was not at home when the police arrived at his Galaxy Apartment in Bandra. The Police evacuated the Khan family - parents Salim and Salma Khan, and sister Arpita - from the apartment, and the BDDS team and other police officials scanned the apartment for four hours.

"We checked every nook and corner of his apartment, and the building, which took us around three to four hours. Only after that, the family was shifted back to their apartment," informed an officer from Bandra police station.

Senior PI Hiremath from the Bandra police station was quoted as saying, “Once we discovered the threat was a hoax, we tracked the culprit through technical intelligence and found that it was a minor boy from Ghaziabad. Accordingly, a team was dispatched to Ghaziabad.”

The report further adds that the mail was indeed a hoax and after tracking, it was found out that the sender is a teenager from Ghaziabad, who was preparing for his CLAT (Common Law Admission Test), and was advised by someone to hide in Tis Hazari Court to avoid the police.

However, the police team met his elder brother and explained the case to him. "The teenager came to the police station and we produced him before the juvenile court. We filed a final report (charge sheet) against him (for a non-cognizable offense) after which the court allowed him to go," the police inspector added.