The Mulund police have arrested a man for making a hoax call to the Mumbai police’s control room while he was allegedly intoxicated. Police said that he threatened to blow up the control room. The matter came to light around 1.30 am on Tuesday.

“We received information from the control room that they had received a call from Mulund and the caller had abused the on-duty officer who was on call. The accused threatened to blow up the control room. However, nothing suspicious was found. An FIR has been registered,” a senior police officer told mid-day.