Recently according to the Indian police, a 13-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly sending an email to the Delhi Airport falsely claiming that a bomb had been planted in the Dubai-bound flight. The incident happened when a complaint was reported regarding the bomb threat on a Dubai-bound flight. For fun The boy had sent the mail after hearing the news a few days ago of another teenager, who made a prank bomb threat call, Usha Rangnani Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport) was quoted by PTI as saying.
DCP said that the airport was put on high alert, and an emergency was declared. An FIR was lodged, based on the complaint, and an investigation was launched regarding this matter. All the SOPs, Protocols, and guidelines, were followed to ensure the security and safety of the passengers. According to police, the boy, who was a Class 9 student, used a mobile phone provided for schoolwork to send the email and then deleted the email account. The boy said that he was scared to tell his parents about the incident. The phone connected to the email was seized by police, and the boy was later released to his parents’ custody.
In recent times, there has been a flow of prank bomb threats to many hospitals and airports acrossthe country. And recently 41 airports, including those in Jaipur, Chennai, and Varanasi, received bomb threats over emails, leading to extensive anti-sabotage checks that lasted for hours.
However, all the threats were found to be pranks.
One morning, an Air Arabia flight that was scheduled to leave for Sharjah from the Calicut International Airport was grounded after receiving a hoax bomb threat. Recently around 60 hospitals across Mumbai also received hoax emails about bombs kept in their premises. Mumbai police said this included both public and private hospitals, and by using Virtual Private Networks (VPN) all emails were sent to the hospital’s public mail IDs.
