18 July,2023 02:10 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against unidentified persons in connection with a call received last week warning of a 26/11-like terror attack if Pakistani woman Seema Haider did not return to her country, an official said on Tuesday, according to the PTI.
The traffic control room of Mumbai Police had received the call from an unidentified person. The caller, who spoke in Urdu, had said that there would be a terror attack like the November 26, 2008 attack in Mumbai and the Uttar Pradesh government will be responsible for it, he said, the news agency reported.
The Mumbai Police subsequently initiated a probe into the threat call, he said.
Following a complaint filed by the Mumbai traffic police, an FIR was registered at Worli police station on Monday against unidentified persons under relevant provisions, the official said.
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The case has been transferred to the crime branch and a probe is on into it, he said.
The call was made through an app, and the police were trying to track down the IP address of the caller, an official earlier said.
Seema Haider, a 30-year-old Pakistani national, entered India illegally in May to marry her lover Sachin Meena, a resident of Greater Noida. The two had become friends while playing online game PUBG.
Haider and Meena, 22, were arrested by local police in Greater Noida on July 4 and later granted bail by a court on July 7.
Police has been interrogating Haider for entering India illegally without a visa. She had entered the country reportedly through Nepal border.
The UP Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) had also questioned Haider and Meena on Monday and Tuesday.
Her questioning also comes at a time when a little-known right-wing fringe group in Greater Noida has threatened a protest if Haider, who illegally entered India with her four children, is not evicted from the country "within 72 hours".
The cross-border couple were first interrogated by the UP ATS on Monday at its office in Noida and the duo was released late in the night.
Haider and Meena were first arrested by the local police in Greater Noida on July 4 but were granted bail by a court on July 7.
(with PTI inputs)
