To seek revenge on the police who picked up his younger brother, arrested many times before for stealing mobile phones, a 20-yr-old made a hoax call about bombs at a Borivli mall. The police, who searched it for hours after the call on January 16, arrested the older brother, Shabaz Ansari, (20), on Wednesday.

“There are five bombs kept in two bags in a corner on the second floor in Moksh mall,” was the call the police control room got on January 16. Immediately officers from Borivali police station, the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS), sniffer dogs and other police teams reached the spot and after conducting a two-hour search operation found the call was a hoax.