Police in India arrest minor following hoax bomb threats on flights

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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.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/577htes3  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Mumbai police have arrested a minor in connection with online bomb threats made against three

00:06flights earlier this week.

00:08Indian airlines have received a series of threats in October targeting both domestic

00:13and international flights on social media, all of which have turned out to be false alarms.

00:18In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, India's civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu

00:25confirmed the arrest of a minor without disclosing the individual's identity.

00:30He dismissed conspiracy theories, but assured that action was being taken.

00:34We can't comment anything like a conspiracy, but whatever little bit we have known, it's

00:38coming from minors or some pranksters, generally for some very little petty things they are

00:44trying to do these kind of threats on the social media or through phone calls.

00:52So they are all very minor and isolated incidents.

00:54There is no kind of conspiracy that we can comment on.

00:57Local media reported that bomb threats were issued from an account on X, targeting two

01:02Indigo flights to Muscat and Jeddah and an Air India flight to New York, falsely claiming

01:08that armed militants with explosives were on board.

01:11Bomb threats are very serious issues.

01:13You would have seen in the last 24 or 48 hours several such threats have been issued.

01:18One of our Air India flights was grounded as well.

01:21Several other aircraft also received similar threats.

01:28Our agencies, Ministry of Home Affairs and other relevant agencies, they are looking

01:32into the matter and hopefully some arrests, I understand, have been made.

01:36Some FIRs have also been filed.

01:39Air India also reported that its New Delhi to Chicago flight was forced to land in Canada

01:44on Wednesday due to an online security threat, with passengers later flown to their destination

01:50by a Canadian Air Force plane.

01:53At least eight Indigo flights, three SpiceJet flights, two Vistara flights and four Air

01:58India flights received similar threats this week.

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