India, Sept. 7 -- A man was arrested from Noida's Sector 79 on Friday for allegedly sending a hoax bomb threat to Mumbai Police that put the entire metropolis on high alert during Ganeshotsav. But this was not his first brush with the law.

The 51-year-old accused, Ashwini Kumar, hails from Patliputra in Patna. Earlier, HT reported that he was allegedly trying to take "revenge" on his friend Firoz, who had lodged a case against him in 2023.

"He sent a threat message to Mumbai police identifying himself as Firoz to take revenge and frame him in a false case," a police officer, requesting anonymity, said.

Now, according to the FIR accessed by The Indian Express, Kumar was previously arrested in June 2023 in a cheating and impersonation ca...