The Tardeo police arrested a 21-year-old man on Wednesday night for allegedly creating nuisance in public and creating panic near Mumbai Central Railway station by brandishing a knife at people. The accused is a resident of Tulshiwadi and has been arrested before for thefts and burglary.

The Tardeo cops on patrolling duty received a call from an informer around 8.50 pm that a man is brandishing knife in the open and threatening pedestrians and shop keepers near Mumbai Central station area. The police rushed to the spot immediately and saw the pedestrians were running helter-skelter and the shopkeepers were shutting down the shops on Sane Guruji Marg and Vasantdada Patil Garden.