India, May 15 -- The Bund Garden police on Tuesday late night arrested an individual for sending bomb threat messages to Sassoon General Hospital. The accused, identified as Arvind Krushna Kokani, 29, of Nagpur Chawl in Yerawada, was security guard at the hospital, said authorities, adding that the action over the incident that took place on May 12 and May 13 was taken after technical investigation.

According to the police, Dr Harish Suresh Tatiya of forensic medicine department on May 12 received a bomb threat via mobile message from an unknown number, prompting immediate alert and security measures within the premises, besides police alert. Later, a bomb detection squad scanned the area and declared it safe. Police arrested the accused...