Suspected Caller Arrested After Bomb Hoax at Vijay’s Chennai Home

Overview

• Police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad searched Vijay’s Neelankarai residence for about four hours before declaring the alert a hoax.
• The caller was arrested and identified by police as Shabik, 37, with investigators examining the call’s origin and any potential links.
• Chennai’s police control room received the early-hours warning of an explosive allegedly planted at the actor and TVK leader’s home.
• A senior officer said Tamil Nadu has logged more than 600 threat emails targeting roughly 300 locations in eight months, often sent via Hotmail or Outlook accounts routed through VPNs.
• Recent false alerts have prompted BDDS sweeps at political offices, temples, and several media houses in the city, all of which were cleared.