Karnataka: PG medical student makes bomb threat call to skip seminar presentation but ends up in Mangaluru police custody

Mangaluru police arrested a postgraduate medical student, Chalasani Monica Choudary, on Saturday for making a fake bomb threat call to a private hospital.

According to City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy C H, initial investigations revealed that Choudary made the hoax call on June 4 to create a scare and avoid giving a presentation at a seminar scheduled that day.

To mislead the authorities, Choudary even filed a complaint about the threat herself. Police later identified her as the hoax caller through technical data analysis.


At around 8:45 am on Wednesday, the hospital received a call from someone claiming a bomb was planted on the premises and that the hospital must be evacuated by 11 am. After this, there were at least four more similar calls, causing panic among hospital staff and patients.

Following the alert, 25 to 30 police personnel, including bomb detection and disposal squad members and dog squads, rushed to the hospital. They thoroughly searched the hospital premises, parking areas, and surroundings, but no explosives were found.

A case has been registered under multiple sections of the Bombay Police Act at Ullal police station. Police have recorded Choudary’s statement and seized her mobile phone for further investigation.

Inputs from TOI