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Police in India arrest minor following hoax bomb threats on flights
The Star
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10/18/2024
Police in India’s financial capital Mumbai have arrested a minor for allegedly posting online bomb threats to three flights earlier this week, India’s aviation minister said.
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Mumbai police have arrested a minor in connection with online bomb threats made against three
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flights earlier this week.
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Indian airlines have received a series of threats in October targeting both domestic
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and international flights on social media, all of which have turned out to be false alarms.
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In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, India's civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu
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confirmed the arrest of a minor without disclosing the individual's identity.
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He dismissed conspiracy theories, but assured that action was being taken.
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We can't comment anything like a conspiracy, but whatever little bit we have known, it's
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coming from minors or some pranksters, generally for some very little petty things they are
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trying to do these kind of threats on the social media or through phone calls.
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So they are all very minor and isolated incidents.
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There is no kind of conspiracy that we can comment on.
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Local media reported that bomb threats were issued from an account on X, targeting two
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Indigo flights to Muscat and Jeddah and an Air India flight to New York, falsely claiming
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that armed militants with explosives were on board.
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Bomb threats are very serious issues.
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You would have seen in the last 24 or 48 hours several such threats have been issued.
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One of our Air India flights was grounded as well.
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Several other aircraft also received similar threats.
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Our agencies, Ministry of Home Affairs and other relevant agencies, they are looking
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into the matter and hopefully some arrests, I understand, have been made.
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Some FIRs have also been filed.
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Air India also reported that its New Delhi to Chicago flight was forced to land in Canada
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on Wednesday due to an online security threat, with passengers later flown to their destination
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by a Canadian Air Force plane.
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At least eight Indigo flights, three SpiceJet flights, two Vistara flights and four Air
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India flights received similar threats this week.
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