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How far would you go to get out of a holiday with a partner?

Would you pay a small cancellation fee? Or affect the symptoms of a mystery illness? Or would you just play it safe and fake a terror plot?

Forget post-holiday blues, it was pre-holiday blues that got one married man’s trunks in a twist. According to a Hyderabad City Police report, 32-year-old Motaparthi Vamshi Krishna went to the extraordinary lengths of faking a terror plot to ensure he didn’t have to go on holiday with his girlfriend.

Mr Krishna emailed Mumbai police claiming to be a woman who had heard six men at a hotel plotting to hijack planes in the cities of Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai. Extra security was put in place at the cities three airports as a result.

Mr Krishna ended up admitting he made the entire thing up after being traced by the IP address of the computer the email was sent from.

During the police interrogation, he said his online girlfriend had proposed the holiday but he didn’t have the money to make it happen. So, instead of believing that honesty may indeed be the best policy, he created a fake airline ticket and emailed it to his girlfriend before tipping the police off about the hoax hijacking.

Despite his best efforts, it’s thought no flights were disrupted. Mr Krishna was arrested on four charges, including impersonation and providing false information.

And, presumably, he now faces the wrath of two women.