Bomb scare at sports club turns out to be a child’s movie-inspired prank

Jun 11, 2026 - 06:03
Bomb scare at sports club turns out to be a child’s movie-inspired prank
Ahmedabad: For ten days, a handwritten note warning of a bomb blast and invoking underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba kept Ahmedabad’s security agencies on the edge. Police examined foreign guests, analysed CCTV footage, scanned digital records and deployed bomb squads — only to discover that the alleged terror threat had originated from an unlikely source: a nine-year-old boy’s prank inspired by a movie.