Air India, Air India Xpress, and IndiGo flights are amongst these to have gotten bomb threats (File).

New Delhi:

The worrying flurry of bomb threats to Indian airways – 12 in the past 48 hours – have been mentioned in a gathering of the parliamentary standing committee on transport, sources instructed NDTV Wednesday.

This was preceded by a dialogue between Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu and officers from his ministry and the Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation.

Aviation officers instructed MPs “important leads” and some preliminary suspects had been recognized

Late Tuesday – after an Air India flight from Delhi to Chicago was diverted to a distant airport in Canada on receipt of a bomb risk – the Bureau of Civil Aviation Safety mentioned it had launched an investigation into that hoax and the others, a number of of which have been from one X account.

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In whole seven flights have been affected Tuesday after threats have been tweeted from that deal with.

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Aside from the that landed in Canada, an IndiGo service from Saudi Arabia to Lucknow made an emergency touchdown in Jaipur, as did an Air India Xpress flight from Jaipur to Ayodhya.

A 3rd Air India Xpress flight, two Akasa Air planes, and an Alliance air service have been additionally impacted.

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This afternoon an IndiGo from Mumbai to Delhi and Akasa Air from Delhi to Bengaluru obtained threats; the IndiGo was redirected to Ahmedabad and the Akasa Air returned to Delhi.

On Monday, two IndiGo and one Air India flight obtained threats; the Air India flight was from Mumbai to New York and the IndiGo planes have been heading for Oman and Saudi Arabia.

In the meantime, different points mentioned by the committee associated to ticket costs and regional air connectivity, significantly the federal government’s UDAAN scheme.

Committee members pointed to marked discrepancies in ticket costs between completely different airways, significantly for a similar sectors, and ‘uncommon’ surge in costs.

These will likely be mentioned intimately later, sources mentioned.

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