Overview

• The emergency call was received Thursday morning at the 112 control room in Mahape, Navi Mumbai, with a claim of a blast in the Arabian Sea near the city’s coast.
• Mumbai Police, coastal security agencies and local police were placed on high alert, and searches were conducted along coastal areas.
• Officials said the threat is being verified for authenticity as teams work to trace and locate the unidentified caller.
• The city recently faced a WhatsApp threat on September 5 alleging 34 ‘human bombs’ and naming supposed terrorists carrying 400 kg of RDX.
• The Mumbai Police Crime Branch arrested 50-year-old Ashwinikumar Sureshkumar Supra in Noida in connection with that earlier hoax.