An Ahmednagar resident, who is embroiled in a property dispute with his cousins and relatives, hatched a plan to send them behind bars and went to great lengths to execute it, only to land in police net himself.

The 47-year-old man dialled the Mumbai police control room on April 7 to give a tip-off, sources said. Identifying himself as Raja Thonge, he said that three people with terror links had arrived in the city from Pakistan via Dubai and gave their phone numbers. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) interrogated the three people but found nothing suspicious. The ATS then launched a manhunt for the caller and learnt that he had changed his identity to make the call.