On Sunday, Police have arrested three persons from Channapatna town, allegedly sent a bomb hoax SMS to an official of Bangalore airport, nearly 60 km from Bangalore.
According to police, the trio was arrested after the SIM card used to send the message was tracked. The SMS was sent to a terminal manager of the airport at 9.30pm Saturday.
After that Investigations have revealed that the SIM bought in Shivananda’s name was used by Ningegowda but Shivananda initially told the police that he had not sent any threat SMSes. Police then tracked the sale of the SIM card to Yogesh’s store and learned that Ningegowda bought the SIM in his cousin’s name.
Then, he said his cousin was a contractor whose bills were not cleared by the CEO of the Ramanagara Zilla Panchayat.
Police said that, “The CEO was scheduled to leave for an official trip on Sunday and Shivananda said he sent the SMS on his cousins’s directive to sink the CEO’s trip.