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HYDERABAD: Hyderabad police task force have arrested a 32-year-old businessman for sending a fake hijack threat email to the Mumbai police on April 15.The accused had sent the threat email because he wanted his "girlfriend" to postpone a proposed trip to Mumbai and Goa.The man has been identified as M Vamshi Krishna , a transport businessman from Miyapur, Hyderabad. He is married and has a daughter.Vamshi recently grew close to a Chennai-based woman through Facebook who wanted to go on a fun trip to Mumbai and Goa. "She pestered Vamshi to book a flight for her to Mumbai on April 16 and asked him to meet her there," a task force official said.Vamshi did not have enough money to plan the trip and created a fake flight ticket from Chennai to Mumbai in her name and emailed it to her on April 15 afternoon. Subsequently, posing as a woman from Hyderabad, he sent an email to Mumbai police saying that six persons were planning to hijack flights leaving from Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai airports "Vamshi wanted to ensure that his girlfriend would not go to the airport," a police official said.Security was stepped up at Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai airports earlier on April 16 following the hijack threat call.A special meeting of the Airport Passenger Service Charge (APSC) was convened at the Mumbai Airport where the contents of the e-mail were read out to all the members."A number of security measures have been put in place. We have increased and strengthened the patrolling, access control. The number of security personnel deployed has been increased," OP Singh, Director-General CISF had confirmed on April 16.