Overview

• Police say the message claimed 34 vehicles carried “human bombs” with 400 kg of RDX and alleged 14 Pakistani terrorists under the name ‘Lashkar-e-Jihadi’.
• Ashwin (Ashwini) Kumar Supra, 50–51, an astrologer from Patliputra living in Noida, was detained with his device and SIM and brought to Mumbai for questioning.
• According to the FIR and initial interrogation, he allegedly sent the message to frame a man named Firoz, who had earlier filed a case that led to Supra’s 2023 jailing.
• A case has been registered at Worli police station under BNS Section 351 and related sub-sections, with the Crime Branch leading the probe and ATS notified.
• Security remains intensified for Ganesh Visarjan with over 21,000 personnel deployed, citywide combing operations, and bomb squads on standby as forensic checks continue.