Ticketing agent held for making hoax bomb call in SpiceJet Delhi-Pune plane
A 24-year-old trainee ticketing agent of British Airways was arrested for allegedly making a hoax bomb call in a Delhi-Pune SpiceJet plane here at the IGI airport, police said on Friday.
The accused made the call so that his childhood friends could spend more time with their girlfriends, who were going to Pune, at the Delhi airport, police said.
The accused has been identified as Abhinav Prakash and is a resident of the national capital’s Dwarka Sector-22, they said, adding that his both the friends fled when they heard about the arrest of Prakash.
On Thursday, information was received at the Spicejet call center regarding a bomb in flight number SG-8938, which was bound to depart from Delhi to Pune at 9.30 pm.
