{"id":631450,"date":"2024-01-27T07:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T01:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=631450"},"modified":"2024-01-27T08:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T02:39:36","slug":"british-indian-student-in-soup-after-making-taliban-joke-to-blow-up-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-indian-student-in-soup-after-making-taliban-joke-to-blow-up-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"British-Indian student in soup after making &#8216;Taliban&#8217; joke to blow up plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-origin British student has appeared in Spanish court after making a joke about blowing up a plane. Aditya Verma was on a trip to Menorca with friends in July 2022 when he sent a text message claiming to be a Taliban member and threatening to blow up the plane. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On my way to blow up the plane. I&#8217;m a member of the Taliban,&#8221; read the message that Verma sent on a private Snapchat group shortly before boarding his flight from London Gatwick Airport, reported BBC. <\/p>\n<p>The message was picked up by UK security services, who informed Spanish authorities. Two Spanish F-18 fighter jets were sent to flank the aircraft on which Verma was travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-origin British student has appeared in Spanish court after making a joke about blowing up a plane. Aditya Verma was on a trip to Menorca with friends in July 2022 when he sent a text message claiming to be a Taliban member and threatening to blow up the plane. &#8220;On my way to blow up the plane. I&#8217;m a member of the Taliban,&#8221; read the message that Verma sent on a private Snapchat group shortly before boarding his flight from London Gatwick Airport, reported BBC. The message was picked up by UK security services, who informed Spanish authorities. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}