New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Nagpur police arrested a man after he allegedly threatened to blow up Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's residence on Wardha Road in Maharashtra's Nagpur District within a span of 10 minutes. The accused was taken into police custody for the hoax threat.

The man has been identified as Umesh Vishnu Raut. Following the hoax bomb threat, security was heightened at the senior BJP leader's house.

According to the police, the city control room received a call on the emergency number 112, warning that Gadkari's Mahal residence would be blown up within ten minutes. The call was traced to mobile number 7498579746, registered in the name of Umesh Vishnu Raut, a resident of Tulsi Bagh Road, Mahal, near Beema Dawakhana, Sakkardara....