The police arrested a man after he caused a bomb hoax that delayed Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi Rajdhani Express at Shoranur near here for three hours on Friday.
Jaysingh Rathore, 30, from Rajasthan was found to have spread the hoax by making a call to the Railway control room and telling them that he overheard two persons speaking about placing a bomb on the Delhi-bound train.
Mr. Rathore reportedly created the hoax as he missed the Rajdhani Express at the Ernakulam Town railway station. He reached the station around 10.45 a.m. to board the train, but it had no stop there.
On seeing the train pass in front of him, Rathore cooked up a bomb story to delay it and catch it at either at Thrissur or Shoranur. He made the hoax call to the Railway control room and boarded Ernakulam-Karaikal Tea Garden Express.
The Railway authorities halted Rajdhani Express at Shoranur and launched a thorough examination. The police dog squad and the bomb squad were pressed into service.
On finding that the bomb threat was a hoax, the Railway police tracked Rathore’s number and nabbed him from Tea Garden Express.
Railway Police Superintendent Gopakumar led the search operation. Rajdhani Express reached Shoranur at 12 mid-day, and resumed its journey at 3 p.m.
