‘Wanted to spend extra time with girlfriends’: Three males make ‘bomb name’ to delay SpiceJet flight

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: Is all truthful in love and battle? Probably not!

Just to delay a flight on which their girlfriends have been imagined to journey, three males made a ‘hoax bomb name’ to Spicejet Call Centre at Delhi Airport, triggering excessive panic and placing the safety companies on their toes.

One of the accused, recognized as  Abhinav Prakash (24), who works as a trainee ticketing agent for British Airways, was arrested by the police.

Sharing particulars of the incident, DCP (IGI) Ravi Kumar Singh mentioned data was first obtained on the Spicejet name centre concerning a bomb in flight no. SG-8938 which was sure to depart for Pune at 9.30 pm on Thursday.

“The information was immediately escalated to the CISF control room and was further transferred to the IGI airport police station. The security agencies at CISF immediately swung into action and a coordination meeting of all stakeholders was organized as the bomb threat was specific,” DCP Singh mentioned.

The Spicejet Airline which was sure to take off to Pune, having 182 passengers and crew members on board was instantly taken to the isolation bay of the Airport and was parked there.

Meanwhile, a name was additionally made to the Fire Department that rushed two fireplace engines to the Delhi Airport in case of an emergency.

“All the passengers and their luggage were properly checked and frisked by the CISF. Further, the aircraft was also thoroughly checked and no suspicious item was found,” the official mentioned.

After securing the flight, an FIR underneath sections 182 (False data), 341 (wrongful restraint), 505 (1)(b) (Statements conducing to public mischief) and 506 (felony intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code was registered and a full-scale probe was launched. A workforce was constituted that obtained possession of the cellular quantity with which the hoax name was made.

“The same was found in the name of Abhinav Prakash, a resident of Dwarka, Delhi. Immediately a raid was conducted at the given address and the accused was apprehended and subsequently arrested,” mentioned the official.

When interrogated, the accused disclosed that his pals specifically Rakesh alias Bunty and Kunal Sehrawat, who lately went on a highway journey to Manali, grew to become pals with two ladies in Manali. Both the ladies have been departing to Pune through flight No. SG-8938 of Spicejet Airlines.

“His friends told him that they wanted to spend some more time with their girlfriends and instigated the accused to find out a plan to somehow delay their departure from Delhi. All three formulated a malicious plan of making a hoax bomb call at the call centre of Spicejet Airlines, with an ulterior motive of getting the flight cancelled,” the official mentioned.

The official additional mentioned the accused particular person to spice up their “false bravado” contacted the ladies who have been onboard and once they got here to know that the flight had been delayed, they even celebrated the execution of their malevolent act.

Meanwhile, accused Abhinav’s two pals Rakesh Bunty and Kunal Sehrawat went absconding after they learnt about their buddy’s arrest.

NEW DELHI: Is all truthful in love and battle? Probably not!

Just to delay a flight on which their girlfriends have been imagined to journey, three males made a ‘hoax bomb name’ to Spicejet Call Centre at Delhi Airport, triggering excessive panic and placing the safety companies on their toes.

One of the accused, recognized as  Abhinav Prakash (24), who works as a trainee ticketing agent for British Airways, was arrested by the police.

Sharing particulars of the incident, DCP (IGI) Ravi Kumar Singh mentioned data was first obtained on the Spicejet name centre concerning a bomb in flight no. SG-8938 which was sure to depart for Pune at 9.30 pm on Thursday.

“The information was immediately escalated to the CISF control room and was further transferred to the IGI airport police station. The security agencies at CISF immediately swung into action and a coordination meeting of all stakeholders was organized as the bomb threat was specific,” DCP Singh mentioned.

The Spicejet Airline which was sure to take off to Pune, having 182 passengers and crew members on board was instantly taken to the isolation bay of the Airport and was parked there.

Meanwhile, a name was additionally made to the Fire Department that rushed two fireplace engines to the Delhi Airport in case of an emergency.

“All the passengers and their luggage were properly checked and frisked by the CISF. Further, the aircraft was also thoroughly checked and no suspicious item was found,” the official mentioned.

After securing the flight, an FIR underneath sections 182 (False data), 341 (wrongful restraint), 505 (1)(b) (Statements conducing to public mischief) and 506 (felony intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code was registered and a full-scale probe was launched. A workforce was constituted that obtained possession of the cellular quantity with which the hoax name was made.

“The same was found in the name of Abhinav Prakash, a resident of Dwarka, Delhi. Immediately a raid was conducted at the given address and the accused was apprehended and subsequently arrested,” mentioned the official.

When interrogated, the accused disclosed that his pals specifically Rakesh alias Bunty and Kunal Sehrawat, who lately went on a highway journey to Manali, grew to become pals with two ladies in Manali. Both the ladies have been departing to Pune through flight No. SG-8938 of Spicejet Airlines.

“His friends told him that they wanted to spend some more time with their girlfriends and instigated the accused to find out a plan to somehow delay their departure from Delhi. All three formulated a malicious plan of making a hoax bomb call at the call centre of Spicejet Airlines, with an ulterior motive of getting the flight cancelled,” the official mentioned.

The official additional mentioned the accused particular person to spice up their “false bravado” contacted the ladies who have been onboard and once they got here to know that the flight had been delayed, they even celebrated the execution of their malevolent act.

Meanwhile, accused Abhinav’s two pals Rakesh Bunty and Kunal Sehrawat went absconding after they learnt about their buddy’s arrest.