Kanpur, Apr 18 (PTI) Panic gripped the Chakeri Airport in Kanpur briefly on Friday after it received a hoax call threatening to blow up a 72-seater flight.

Police have arrested a 21-year-old man identified as Mohit Singh, who confessed to making the "prank call".

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According to ACP Sumit Sudhakar Ramteke, an airport staff named Satendra Singh received the hoax call, in which the caller claimed that a bomb had been planted on a 72-seater aircraft which would explode upon landing.

Alarmed by the call, a bomb disposal squad along with an anti-sabotage check (ASC) team searched the airport premises, but nothing suspicious was found, the officer said.

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A surveillance unit with the assistance of local police traced and arrested the caller, Mohit Singh, a resident of Yashoda Nagar locality in the city, within two hours, Ramteke said.

During questioning, Singh admitted that the threat call was a prank.

"Singh has been booked under the relevant sections of Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita," the officer said.

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