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ShareMUMBAI: Homework hassles have acquired a new dimension. On Tuesday the Kurla police discovered that a teenaged student, fearing punishment for a delayed assignment, had called her school to say a bomb had been planted on the premises.
On Monday morning, there was panic at Anjuman-e-Islam School at Kurla after a caller warned the authorities of a bomb threat. Police traced the call to a PCO in Kurla (west). Enquiries led them to 15-year-old Sakina Shaikh (name changed).
A scared Sakina slashed her wrists as the news became public and TV crews started besieging herhome.
Police said Sakina confessed she had made the prank call. "She further admitted that she had made similar prank calls on two earlier occasions as well," said Vilas Pawar, senior police inspector, Kurla police station.
In her statement, Sakina said she was finding it tough to cope with the homework in Science, Mathematics and English and, hence, made the calls.
She has been booked under section 507 (criminal intimidation through anonymous communication) of the IPC.
Sakina is the oldest of three siblings and lives with her father, a painter, in Kurla. "Since she is a minor, we are counselling her on the consequences of such pranks," Pawar said.
The school has received at least eight hoax bomb calls in the last two years.
