A police informer who was charged Rs 300 for a bottle of mineral water at the Uma Palace Bar in Mulund was so enraged that he set the entire police machinery on a wild goose chase, by calling on their emergency numbers and passing on false information to them about the bar.

Personal vendetta: The vengeful informer called up the emergency police lines to raise a false alarm; later claimed that he had seen the 14 bargirls escape the Uma Palace Bar in an Innova. Pic/Sameer Markande