The Agra police took a heave of relief when a call received by them on Thursday morning about a bomb in the Taj Mahal turned out to be a hoax after an intensive search was carried out on the premises with the help of a dog squad.

The cops later arrested the caller and were interrogating him.

A similar call was received to blow up the Womens' Helpline 1090 later in the day in Lucknow but it also turned out to be a hoax call.

The three gates of the Taj Mahal were shut after information of a bomb on the premises of the world heritage monument was received on Dial 112 of UP Police.

Tourists inside the complex were evacuated and shops outside were closed after an anonymous caller claimed to have planted a bomb at the Taj Mahal.

"The caller said there was some corruption in his SSC results… He said he had planted a bomb on the Taj Mahal premises and that it will explode in some time…,'Superintendent of Police (Protocol) at Agra, Shivram Yadav, disclosed soon after the search operation was completed by the police along with the sleuths of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) looking after the security of the Taj.

However, later they found the call to be a hoax following which they resumed the entry of tourists after about three hours.

The police traced the anonymous call through surveillance and arrested one person from Firozabad.

According to the police, the arrested individual has certain mental health issues. The youth was reportedly angry at the cancellation of army recruitments and hence he made the fake call.

Agra Inspector General of Police Satish Ganesh said that the threat of a bomb in the Taj Mahal only proved to be a rumour.

He said the police had searched the premises as a precautionary measure but it did not find any explosives.

The accused has been arrested and strict action will be taken against him, he added.