A similar case happened in Karntaka,India following bomb blast in Bangalore.
Prank text message lands boy in jail - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
TAXILA: A text message sent by a 17-year-old boy as a joke landed him in jail on Tuesday.
Hasnat Hashmi, a student at a private school, sent a text message to his principal posing to be a terrorist and threatening to blow up the institution. Police managed to trace the sender of the text through mobile data and registered a case against him.
During preliminary interrogation, the boy told police that he had sent the text ‘just for fun’ and was hoping to scare the administration into extending winter vacation.
Police has put him behind bars and charged him with Section 56 of the Criminal Procedure Code and 25D of telegraph act.