A 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly making a hoax call to the Uttar Pradesh Police about a bomb in Gorakhnath temple, police said. Qurban Ali had on Sunday called the police control room that four people carrying a bomb in a cake box have entered the temple, they said.

The caller said he was a native of Vaishali, Bihar and currently living in Golghar in Gorakhpur. When police checked it, the address provided was found to be fake, the police said on Monday. Police tried to contact him but his phone was switched off. However, he was arrested following a tip-off from Carmel road near Malkin hotel late Sunday night, SHO , Cantt Police Station, Shashi Bhushan Rai said.