A 25-year-old man was arrested in relation to a false bomb threat that caused panic at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi.

MUMBAI: A threat call was made to the Delhi Airport control room, warning about a woman passenger who was allegedly a "human bomb" and carrying Rs 90 lakhs to meet her boyfriend. The Sahar police in Mumbai registered the case on Friday and discovered that the caller was the nephew of a 60-year-old woman from Andheri (West) whose name was mentioned as the suspected flyer.

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police booked a man who allegedly made a threatening call to the Delhi Airport control room, falsely claiming that a woman passenger was travelling with a bomb on

The Indian government is working on a new law to punish those spreading the menace of hoax bomb threat calls, which disrupt the flight schedules of airlines and cause massive inconvenience to thousand

"Vistara flight UK17 operating from Delhi to London on October 18, 2024 received a security threat on social media. In line with the protocol, all relevant authorities were immediately informed and as a precautionary measure, the pilots decided to divert the flight to Frankfurt," the spokesperson said.

Canceled and delayed flights, grumpy flyers and economic losses follow more than 400 false bomb threats in India during past two weeks

Indian airlines have received more than 100 bomb threat hoaxes in a span of few days, forcing planes to delay, reroute and make emergency landings – throwing the country’s aviation industry into costly disarray right before one of the biggest festivals of the year.

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