ghaziabad a 15yearold boy battling social and economic hardships at home and angry with the lawkeepers made a series of hoax calls to police two days before republic daythe boys calls and emails saying he had planted bombs at eight places across the city had left the cops guessing with the bombdisposal squad dog squad and fire brigade conducting checks at multiple places through the days the boy a class xi student of an open university was traced through the ip addresses used to make the internet callsduring questioning the boy has told police that he was inspired by the plot of a bollywood thriller a wednesday and made the calls to teach the cops a lesson in the movie the protagonist played by naseeruddin shah makes similar calls to the police and threatens to blow up public buildings if the cops dont take action against a few hardcore terroristspolice said the boy had been facing hardships in his family ever since he was child his family comprises his widowed mother a paralysed sister and an elder brother who is estranged from his wifethe boys father had died six years ago and his family does not have the support of relatives they live in a onebedroom house and do not have a proper source of income his sister is paralysed from waist down and his mother is a homemaker the only person who is doing some sort of job is his elder brother but he has been making rounds of the police station and court because of a marital discord with his wife said an officer who had been investigating the source of the callshe added that the boy had seen his brother being humiliated by the latters wife almost every day even the local panchayat where the case of their domestic discord was being heard did not support the family in their troubled times during questioning the boy broke down and narrated his story he has a lot of angst against the system the officer saidpolice have not pressed any charges against the boy considering the hardships the family is going throughsp city shlok kumar said the boy had been counselled and let off with a warning i hope he has learnt his lesson and understood that police are not enemies of people the boys family did not have any inkling of what he was doing he used the wifi connection at his home a phone and a laptop for making the calls through internet he saidfor two days prior to republic day police had been receiving calls about the presence of bombs at eight places including a residential building and a school in kavi nagar and kotwali areas police have found that the residential building the boy had mentioned in his emails is located near his home and the school is where he had studied in the pastexplaining the method used to make the hoaxes police said the boy had used internet calling facility and sent emails to