A contraption consisting of red pipes held together with a watch-like article and some wires that was kept on the compound wall along Mangaldas Road near Koregaon Park gave rise to a bomb scare in the area yesterday morning.

It turned out to be a false alarm, and the police said a prankster might have created the object to look like the picture of a bomb shown on awareness posters put up by the police in the city.u00a0