British Airways Trainee arrested for fake bomb call to SpiceJet

A hoax call saying that there was a bomb at a Delhi-Pune SpiceJet flight yesterday, which had delayed the evening flight by several hours, was made to ensure that two youths can spend some more time with their girlfriends, who were flying on that flight. On Friday, 13th January 2023, Delhi Police arrested British Airways trainee ticketing agent named Abhinav Prakash for placing the fake bomb call to the SpiceJet Call Center at IGI Airport. Accordingly, the three devised a malevolent plot to make a false bomb call at Spicejet Airlines call centre, with the ulterior purpose of having the flight cancelled or at least delayed. SG-8938.” A press release by Delhi police said, “The accused person to boost their false bravado contacted the girls who were onboard and when they came to know that the flight has been delayed/stopped, they even celebrated the execution of their malevolent act” When the news of the arrest of Abhinav Prakash reached Kunal Sehrawat and Rakesh alias Bunty, they fled away from their addresses and are presently absconding. The SpiceJet flight SG-8938 was scheduled to depart for Pune at 5.35 pm on 12 January, but after the call centre of SpiceJet received the threat message, they alerted the Airport Operations Control Centre.