A senior police official said an email containing a bomb threat against the Delhi to Dubai flight was received at the DIAL office of the IGI Airport. This prompted the official to check the entire flight.
Bomb threat in West Delhi schools: Panic gripped school students and parents early morning today after several schools in Delhi-NCR received bomb threats via email on Wednesday morning. The Ministry of Home Affairs said it appears to be a hoax call and that there was no need to panic.
Mumbai news: The Mumbai International Airport Limited officials informed the bomb squad and all concerned security agencies thereafter, but nothing was found after the probe.
Upon thorough examination, officials determined the threat to be a hoax, with no credible danger posed. An officer involved in the investigation confirmed that the call was deemed bogus following enquiry.
According to the police, the accused claimed that Seema Haider and other 25 people had come to Mumbai from Pakistan and a bomb blast would take place within 2-3 hours. Soon after the call, the police traced the caller and arrested him.
The same woman has called the police 38 times so far to inform them about similar deployment of bombs. Another such call was received during the investigation saying that a bomb is deployed in Kamathipura.
According to the officials, the police's main control room received a call on Friday in which the caller claimed that a probable terrorist had entered the city.
The Puducherry police went into a tizzy after a man called the control room on Sunday and said explosives would go off in the next 24 hours in Raj Nivas and the Railway station.
Evanston Police said a call to police reporting shots fired at Engelhart Hall, a graduate student residence, was a "swatting" hoax. The term describes when someone calls in a false report in the hopes of prompting a SWAT team to respond.
The flyer later claimed he wanted to know the status of a ‘Bom-Del’ flight but was misunderstood by the telephone operator at the other end as him having said “bomb hai (there is a bomb)”.
An unidentified person on Wednesday called up Delhi Police’s emergency number 100 threatening to kill Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Islamabad: A hoax call allegedly traced to the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, claimed that a bomb had been placed on the premises of the Sindh Governor House in Pakistan, the media reported on Saturday.Bomb Disposal
Gurgaon: Two persons were arrested for making hoax calls about bombs being placed at certain places in the city, sending authorities into a tizzy to secure the areas. While one of them had called Gurgaon
London, Dec 13: An Indian-origin nurse, who died after being duped by a prank call made by two Australian DJs to a UK hospital treating a pregnant Kate Middleton, was found hanging at her staff
London, Dec 8: British police say that a nurse who was found dead days after she took a hoax call about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was originally from India.Scotland Yard said Saturday that 46-year-old
New Delhi, Jun 18: A bomb hoax call by a disgruntled passenger forced authorities to ground an Ahmedabad-bound Spicejet plane just as it was preparing to take off with 174 passengers on board at the
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