Mumbai, May 27 -- Mumbai Police on Tuesday apprehended a man from the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area in connection with a bomb threat to the Mumbai airport, officials said.

The threat call was received at the Mumbai Police control room earlier.

According to police, the call was made around 9.00 am by an unidentified person who claimed he would blow up the Mumbai airport by 2.00 pm.

Acting swiftly, MIDC Police traced and arrested the caller within an hour.

The accused has been identified as Manjeet Kumar Gautam (35), a native of Uttar Pradesh, who has been residing in the Sakinaka area of Mumbai.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Gautam was behind the hoax call. He has been taken into custody for que...