The police have registered a case in opposition to an unidentified one who allegedly circulated a hoax message a couple of bomb on a world flight on the Pune airport on Sunday afternoon.
An official from the Pune airport lodged a grievance on the Vimantal police station stating that the hoax message was posted on the microblogging platform X.
Senior police inspector Ajay Sankeshwari confirmed that false bomb threats for varied flights at completely different airports within the nation had been posted from the identical X account “Schizophrenia 111”.
Police stated the hoax message was posted on X from a cellphone quantity, which is being investigated. The hoax message claimed {that a} bomb was positioned inside a Pune – Singapore flight of a non-public airways firm.
After coming throughout the message, the airport authorities, safety personnel, the bomb detection and disposal squad and the Pune metropolis police workforce carried out an in depth search operation within the flight and on the worldwide airport in Lohegaon, however nothing suspicious was discovered.
Nevertheless, the incident induced panic among the many passengers and residents within the airport premises for a while.
Police sub-inspector Sandip Karpe, who’s investigating the case, stated, they’re probing the incident. Police have booked the unidentified accused for allegedly posting and circulating the hoax message on social media, underneath Sections 125,351(4),353(1)(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
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