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Police arrest 2 Kerala youths for fake bomb threat at Bengaluru Airport

03:50 PM Feb 09, 2017 | Team Udayavani |

Bengaluru: The police arrest two youth from Kerala in connection with fake bomb threat in Kochi bound domestic Air Asia flight. According to the sources, the Alappuzha district based youths Arjun and Neha Gopinathan called Bengaluru international airport manager threatening a bomb has been planted in Kochi bound flight which was scheduled to depart from Bengaluru international airport to Kochi on late evening hours of Wednesday.

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Based on the call received, the security officials checked each and every inch of the flight and didn’t find any suspicious material in it. After a detailed search, the flight was departed to Kochi in the early hours on Thursday.

The call was found fake as the security personnel didn’t find anything in the flight. After an inquiry, the police found that the call was from a public telephone booth located at Alappuzha in Kerala state. Later, the police arrested the accused for further inquiry on Thursday in connection with fake bomb threat. 

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