Bengaluru, Jan 13: A man who made a hoax bomb call to implicate five persons in a bid to take revenge against them, has been arrested, police said on Monday.

The accused had claimed the five men conspired to carry out bomb blast in the city, similar to last year's Rameshwaram Cafe blast, police said.

The suspect Syed had called the police control room on January 9 and falsely accused Ismail, Altaf, Nahid, Amzad and Humayun were plotting to carry out blasts in the city.

"We arrested the person who tried to fix five people in a false case to take revenge on them," a police officer told PTI on Monday.

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Shivamogga: A 17-year-old student from Kamakshi Street in the city, Prem Kumar, died of drowning while swimming in River Tunga in Pillangiri village of the taluk recently.

Prem, who was studying in II PUC at DVS College, was visiting the temple in Pillangiri with his friends and got into the river for a swim, when he drowned in the waters of the river.

The youngster’s body has been sent to the mortuary of the McGann Hospital in Shivamogga to conduct a post-mortem examination.

Shivamogga Rural Police visited the spot and held an inspection.