India, Feb. 13 -- A 50-year-old mentally unstable man was detained by the Azad Maidan Police for allegedly making a hoax call to the Mumbai Police control room on Tuesday. The police said he made over 1,400 calls to the control room in the last six months.

"The caller said a terrorist in America will bomb Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plane, I have already alerted you. This is the same terrorist who has crashed six planes in the last one month," said a police officer.

A non-cognizable offence ws registered.

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