Police said it was a “dummy bomb” placed in the hospital by a financially distressed man, who wanted to extort money from doctors.

The ATS nabbed the suspect identified as Shivaji Rathod, aged around 30 years, from Nagpur railway junction on Friday. Police said there was no terror angle to the case. Hailing from Solapur, the accused is married and lived in Pune .

According to Dr Vilas Gaikwad, owner of the hospital, a woman staffer spotted the “bomb-like” object inside men’s washroom on the first floor around 7 pm. Dr Gaikwad kept the suspicious object, with a timer showing a time of 7.10, in a box in an open space outside the hospital and informed the police within a few minutes.…