Overview

• Mumbai Crime Branch traced the threat to Noida and detained Ashwin(Ashwini) Kumar Supra, 50–51, whose phone and SIM were seized before he was transported to Mumbai.
• The WhatsApp message to the Traffic Police alleged 34 vehicles with “human bombs,” 400 kg of RDX, and 14 Pakistani terrorists under the name “Lashkar-e-Jihadi” on the eve of Anant Chaturdashi.
• A case was registered at Worli police station under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Section 351 and subsections, and the ATS and other agencies were alerted.
• Investigators say Supra, an astrologer from Patna living in Noida’s Sector 79, may have sent the message to implicate a man named Firoz who had earlier filed a case against him.
• Security for Ganesh Visarjan was intensified with more than 21,000 personnel deployed, as teams conducted combing operations while forensic and technical analyses continue.