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PATNA: It was a six-year-old child who had made the hoax call to the Patna airport saying a bomb had been planted on the airport premises on September 7. Patna DSP (Sachivalaya) Rajesh Singh Prabhakar told this reporter police investigations tracked the call to Belaganj in Gaya district . “Soon after watching a TV serial on crime, the Class I student saw an aircraft in the sky from his window. He asked his mother where would it land and she replied, “at Patna”.The boy then searched for the Patna airport’s contact details on Google, and made the call to its landline number, Prabhakar said on Tuesday.The DSP said the boy confessed to making the call and demonstrated to police how he searched the number on Google. The call recipient also confirmed the voice of the boy matched with that of the caller.“We let him off after his parents signed a bond that such an incident will not happen again,” the DSP said.Police are also trying to trace the number from which a call was made to the GoAir call centre in Mumbai on September 9, informing that a bomb had been planted at the Patna airport.After the calls, jittery security forces had scanned the entire airport, but no bomb was found..