A man was arrested by the police for allegedly making a hoax bomb call in an attempt to delay his flight from Dharbhanga in Bihar to Delhi as he was running late, police said on Saturday, reported the PTI.

The man identified as Jay Krishna Kumar Mehta, a Noida-based BPO employee and a native of Supaul in Bihar, by the time he made the call, the SpiceJet flight had already departed for Delhi, they said, as per the PTI.