Passenger held after mid-air bomb scare forces emergency landing of Nagpur-Kolkata flight at Raipur

Around 8.40 am, the section constabulary received accusation from the Air Traffic Control (ATC) astir a Nagpur-Kolkata Indigo formation with 187 passengers and six unit members making an exigency landing astatine Raipur’s Swami Vivekananda Airport. This was aft 1 of its passengers — identified arsenic Animesh Mandal, 44-year-old nonmigratory from Nagpur — told a formation attendant that determination was a weaponry onboard, constabulary said.

At Raipur, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the police’s Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) thoroughly checked the level but recovered nothing. The formation took disconnected by noon.

According to City Superintendent of Police Lambodar Patel, the fishy continued to importune determination was a weaponry connected the level adjacent aft being told that thing was found.

“He is not cooperating with us,” Inspector Bhavesh Gautam of Raipur’s Mana Police Station — nether which the airdrome falls — told The Indian Express. “He told america that helium received accusation from his sources implicit the telephone that determination was an explosive connected the airplane. But helium is not disclosing immoderate further information.”

Mandal was booked nether Section 351 (4) (the offence of transgression intimidation by anonymous communication, oregon having taken precaution to conceal the sanction oregon abode of the idiosyncratic from whom the menace comes) and provisions of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982.