{The teenager}’s father is being questioned.
Mumbai:
A minor has been taken into custody by the Mumbai Police over a sequence of bomb threats being issued to varied airways since Monday, resulting in some flights being diverted, together with one to a distant airport in Canada. Police mentioned the threats had been allegedly issued as a result of the boy wished to border one among his associates, with whom he had a dispute over cash.
The 17-year-old boy, a college dropout from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, and his father had been summoned by the Mumbai Police on Tuesday. Whereas he has been taken into custody and is being taken to a remand house, his father remains to be being questioned, police sources mentioned. {The teenager} allegedly created a deal with on X within the title of the pal with whom he had a dispute and posted bomb threats from it.
At the very least 19 threats have been issued, beginning with 4 on Monday, and the Mumbai Police has registered three first info reviews (FIRs). {The teenager} has at present been taken into custody in reference to the primary FIR, which is about Monday’s threats.
Police mentioned that, on Monday, the boy had issued hoax threats to 4 flights, three of which had been on worldwide routes. Of those, two had been delayed, together with Air India flight AI 119 from Mumbai to New York, which was diverted to New Delhi, and one needed to be cancelled.
At the very least seven flights had been impacted on Tuesday, together with Air India flight AI 127 from Delhi to Chicago, which was diverted to the Iqaluit airport in Canada. IndiGo flight 6E 98 from Damman in Saudi Arabia to Lucknow made an emergency touchdown in Jaipur and threats had been acquired by Air India Categorical, Akasa Air and Alliance Air as properly.
Tuesday’s threats had been issued from an X deal with which started posting on the social media platform within the afternoon.
The hoax calls continued on Wednesday, with a New Delhi-Bengaluru Akasa Air flight (QP 1335) returning to the capital and Indigo’s Mumbai-Delhi flight 6E 651 being diverted to Ahmedabad. 5 different flights additionally acquired bomb threats, together with two from SpiceJet.
Parliamentary Panel Meet
The Delhi Police has additionally registered a number of FIRs in reference to the threats and the difficulty got here up in a gathering of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on transport on Wednesday.
Sources mentioned aviation officers had instructed the MPs who had been a part of the panel that that they had a number of “essential leads” and a few suspects had been recognized.
Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu additionally held a gathering with officers from his division and aviation regulator Directorate Common of Civil Aviation.
Senior officers from an airline had instructed NDTV that such hoax calls have a powerful affect on funds however they don’t have any choice however to take them severely.
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