Mumbai Police on Saturday said that it arrested a man who made a fake bomb threat call to its south region control room on Friday. The caller had informed the police that there would be a blast in parts of south Mumbai including a government hospital and crowded places in the city, the police said.

According to the police, the control room had received a call on February 24 at around 1:35 pm and the called who refused to reveal his identity had informed the police that on February 23, huge quantity of explosives had been brought to the city at a coastal area and it would be used to carry out bomb blasts in different parts of south Mumbai. The caller even gave the information of the locations where the blasts would take place.