Chaos At Mumbai Airport After Woman Makes False Claim Of Carrying Bomb In Luggage, Arrested
Chaos erupted at Mumbai airport when a passenger claimed she was carrying bomb in her luggage. She was later arrested.
Chaos hit Mumbai airport after a woman falsely claimed that she was carrying an explosive in her luggage when she was asked to pay up for extra luggage by the staff. The police have filed a case and the women has been arrested. As per rules, every passenger is allowed to carry a lugguage weighing up to 15 kg but when the woman was asked to pay extra for another bag she was carrying, she refused and claimed that she was carrying a bomb. However, no explosives were found in the bad upon being searched.
DCP Zone 8 Dixit Gedam told ABP News that the Mumbai Police has registered a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and arrested her. She would be presented before the court in 24 hours. She was travelling from Mumbai to Kolkata.
Man Threatens To Blow Up Patna Railway Station
On Tuesday, in a smilar incident, a man was arrested for making a hoax call threatning to blow up Patna Railway Station. He later gave a strange reason saying that he was angry at his wife for eloping with her lover which made him make the threat call. After receiving the call, Railway Protection Force (RPF), along with the General Railway Police (GRP), immediately swung into action and launched a search operation.
Search operations were carried out across all 10 platforms. Officials also searched the baggage of passengers on the platforms as well as in the trains that were arriving. Bomb and dog squads were also called in to assist the RPF in search operation.
Bomb threat calls have been made to the Patna Railway station in the past. In December last year, a call was made of a bomb planted at the junction but it turned out to be a hoax after the RPF sprung into action and began investigations.
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