Engineer arrested for posting a bomb threat message on his Facebook wall.

Pune: A city-based engineer was arrested on Friday for posting a threat message on his Facebook wall to bomb SunGard Technology Services, a multinational company. Police said Yash Amol Karnik, who works at Jhonson Controls India, posted the comment out of frustration of poor work performance for the past few months. Suhas Ramchandra Shingare, senior manager of SunGard Technology, lodged the complaint at the Chatrushringi police station.

When contacted, Shingare refused to comment. However, police inspector B S Tele, the investigation officer, said, "Shingare called up the police on Thursday late evening saying that he received a threat to bomb SunGard on his Facebook account between 8 pm and 9 pm."

Police said Karnik, a resident of Mayur Colony, Kothrud, has done his engineering and higher education in UK. Karnik has mentioned on his Facebook account that he has pursued "communication engineering" from University of Manchester. He has also studied at the BITS Pilani in Dubai. Inspector Tele said, "During interrogation, Karnik said he sent the threat message because he was frustrated due to his own lacklustre performance at Jhonson Controls for the last seven months."

When a police team led by assistant commissioner of police Vishnu Mane and assistant inspector M N Joshi along with the bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) came to SunGard company offices at Senapati Bapat Road and Kharadi and conducted a search for about two hours. However, nothing suspicious emerged.

Later, the Chaturshringi police initiated a probe and found that the threat message was sent by Karnik of Jhonson Controls India that handles the maintenance of CCTV cameras at SunGard. The police arrested him under Sections 427, 506 (2) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act. He would be produced before the court on Saturday.