CHENNAI: The Central Crime Branch of Chennai police on Saturday arrested a 27-year-old man on charges of sending a bomb hoax threat to Indigo Airlines earlier this week. Police said the accused, V Prasanna, had sent the hoax message in the name of his neighbour’s family in Perambur, as he had a rift with them. On June 18, around 8:45am, …
Amid a spurt in hoax e-mails on bombs in planes and at airports across the nation, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security is reportedly mulling a five-year flying ban on people who send such threats. Last month's bomb threat to the Delhi-NCR schools led to the early closure of the institutes, causing severe inconvenience and worry for students and their …
Panic gripped students, parents, and the staff and management of as many as 48 schools in and around Bengaluru on Friday after they received email threats warning of “explosive devices on the school grounds”. Watch | Several Bengaluru schools get ‘bomb threats’ “Certain schools in Bengaluru city received emails in the morning indicating ‘bomb threat’. The government should take stern …
