India, Oct. 31 -- A 23-year-old Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirant was apprehended from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur for allegedly impersonating a person associated with a cross-border organisation operating from Pakistan's Lahore and telephonically telling his former roommate that they were selected for executing bomb blasts in Delhi, police said on Friday.

Police said the suspect, Suraj Verma, has been bound down for making statements conducing to public mischief and that a case in this regard has been registered at the Mukherjee Nagar police station under Section 353(1)(b)(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

"Investigation revealed that the bomb threat call, which purportedly claimed links with Lahore, Pakistan, was actually a ...