{The teenager}’s father is being questioned.

Mumbai:

A minor has been taken into custody by the Mumbai Police over a sequence of bomb threats being issued to numerous airways since Monday, resulting in some flights being diverted, together with to a distant airport in Canada. The threats have been allegedly issued as a result of the boy wished to border one among his associates with whom he had a dispute over cash. 

The 17-year-old boy, a college dropout from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, and his father had been summoned by the Mumbai Police on Tuesday. Whereas he has been taken into custody and is being taken to a remand house, his father continues to be being questioned, police sources stated. {The teenager} allegedly created a deal with on X within the identify of the good friend with whom he had a dispute and posted bomb threats from it.

At the least 12 threats have been issued, beginning with 4 on Monday, and the Mumbai Police has registered three first data reviews (FIRs). {The teenager} has presently been taken into custody in reference to the primary FIR, which is about Monday’s threats. 

Police stated that, on Monday, the boy had issued hoax threats to 4 flights, three of which have been worldwide flights. Of those, two have been delayed, together with Air India flight AI 119 from Mumbai to New York, which was diverted to New Delhi, and one needed to be cancelled.

At the least seven flights have been impacted on Tuesday, together with Air India flight AI 127 from Delhi to Chicago, which was diverted to the Iqaluit airport in Canada. IndiGo flight 6E 98 from Damman in Saudi Arabia to Lucknow made an emergency touchdown in Jaipur and threats have been acquired by Air India Categorical, Akasa Air and Alliance Air as nicely. 

Tuesday’s threats have been issued from an X deal with which started posting on the social media platform within the afternoon.

The hoax calls continued on Wednesday, with a New Delhi-Bengaluru Akasa Air flight (QP 1335) returning to the capital and Indigo’s Mumbai-Delhi flight 6E 651 being diverted to Ahmedabad. 

Parliamentary Panel Meet

The Delhi Police has additionally registered a number of FIRs in reference to the risk and the difficulty got here up in a gathering of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on transport on Wednesday. 

Sources stated aviation officers had advised the MPs who have been a part of the panel that they’d a number of “critical leads” and a few suspects had been recognized.

Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu additionally held a gathering with officers from his division and aviation regulator Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation.

Senior officers from an airline had advised NDTV that such hoax calls have a powerful affect on funds however they don’t have any possibility however to take them severely.