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School dropout made hoax call

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI MAY 28. The anonymous caller who sent the police into a tizzy on Sunday evening by ringing up the Police Control Room to say that "shots had been fired in the Parliament complex" turned out to be a minor from Faridabad in Haryana.

The call was made around 7.30 p.m. and a police team rushed to the Parliament complex. However, it found nothing amiss there. As a matter of precaution, a general alert was sounded in New Delhi.

Police found out that the call had been made from a mobile phone using a cash card. The caller, a school dropout, was traced to Janata Flats in Faridabad. Legal action was initiated against him by the Parliament Street police station, where a case was earlier registered. Interrogation revealed that he had come to Delhi to attend a party and had made the call from his mobile phone to play a prank.

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