New Delhi: A BPO worker based mostly in Noida was arrested for allegedly making a hoax name in an try to delay his flight from Darbhanga in Bihar to Delhi, as he was working late, in accordance with police, information company PTI reported.
Jay Krishna Kumar Mehta, a local of Supaul in Bihar, made the decision after the SpiceJet flight had already departed for Delhi. Upon touchdown on the IGI airport in Delhi, passengers had been deplaned, and the plane was taken to an remoted bay for an intensive search, throughout which no bomb was discovered, stated officers, reported PTI.
The case in opposition to Mehta was registered at Gurugram’s Udyog Vihar police station, as the decision was made to the airline’s name heart in Gurugram. The Delhi Police additionally registered a separate case because the IGI airport falls beneath its jurisdiction.
In accordance with information company PTI, the official acknowledged that after arrest, Mehta was handed over to Gurugram Police and booked beneath Indian Penal Code sections 506 (felony intimidation) and 507 (felony intimidation by an nameless communication). The decision, made to SpiceJet’s Gurugram-based name heart, recognized the caller as Kishore. Through the name, Mehta claimed to have overheard two males discussing a bomb on SpiceJet flight quantity SG-8496 flying from Darbhanga to Delhi on January 24. The decision prompted a excessive alert at Delhi airport, although the flight had already departed from Darbhanga.
The official additionally stated “after the decision, the Delhi airport was placed on excessive alert because the flight had already departed from Darbhanga”. “Following an intensive search, the bomb risk was decided to be a hoax,” it stated.