Wanted Attention’: Unemployed Delhi Man Arrested For Threats To Airlines

New Delhi: 

A 25-year-old unemployed man from Delhi has been taken into custody for making hoax bomb threats, marking only the second arrest since a spate of such threats began being issued to airlines last week. Officials from the Delhi Police said the man admitted to making the threats to draw attention to himself after seeing reports of similar calls on television.

Over 275 flights have received hoax bomb threats since October 14 and the Mumbai Police had taken a 17-year-old into custody last week. 

The Delhi Police said on Saturday that two threat messages were received at the capital’s Indira Gandhi International Airport between Friday night and early on Saturday from a social media account.