The Mumbai police have apprehended a security guard from Punjab for allegedly making a hoax call to the city police control room claiming that the owner of a security firm had given him a contract to kill actor Tiger Shroff. The man also said that he was given Rs 2 lakh and a weapon for the hit job. However, when the Khar police caught the accused, Manish Kumar Sujinder Singh, 35, it was found that he was sacked over constant absenteeism and had come up with the hoax call plan to frame his employer, sources with the Mumbai police told The Indian Express. The accused is being brought to Mumbai, another police source said, adding that he used to work at a hotel in Khar. According to the police, their main control room received the call at 10 am on Monday. The caller stated that the branch head and an area officer of a security company offered him the money and weapon. Shroff lived in the Khar area earlier. After it emerged that Singh had deliberately tried to defame the company by giving false information, the Khar police registered a case against him on Monday night under sections 353(2), 212, and 217 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), based on a complaint by Sub-Inspector Prashant Borse, and launched a hunt for the accused. “It was a complete hoax, and the story of the accused person was entirely false. A team from Khar police station apprehended him from Kapurthala in Punjab,” a senior police officer told The Indian Express.
