New Delhi: Pranksters who want to have fun by making hoax calls to police in the national capital, beware! With Delhi Police receiving a record breaking over 80 fake messages so far this year, it has started charging these offenders under a non-bailable offence making it difficult to get away with such pranks.
The city police have started charging such troublemakers for creating fear or alarm among general public under Section 505-B of the Indian Penal Code which is a non-bailable offence.
"We hope this will act as a warning and deterrent. A hoax call means a lot of pressure on us. Any call to the PCR cannot be ignored like that and someone has to rush to the spot. Some did it for fun, others to create trouble," a senior police official said.
For the first time, Delhi Police invoked Section 505-B in August against a Noida-based teacher, Rose Dehb, who allegedly sent SMSs to a lawyer on August 2 that bomb blasts would take place in Patiala House and Supreme Court.
Dehb allegedly wanted to implicate two lawyers Atif Hussain and Akhlaq Hussain because of personal enmity and sent several SMSs threatening to blow up the historic India Gate and courts in the city.
Of late, there has been an increase in the number of bomb hoax calls after the serial blasts in the national capital, which kept police on their toes.
Soon after the blasts, there were bomb scares at Barakhamba Road, Rajiv Chowk metro station and several other places in the capital.
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