Ahmedabad, Feb 10: An unidentified person was booked after a bomb threat letter was found on board a flight that landed at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport here from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on Monday morning, an official said. As per the FIR, someone had written “Bomb is Here” on tissue paper, which was left under the seat of an IndiGo flight that arrived at around 9:20 am with 174 passengers. “Nothing suspicious was found during a thorough check of the aircraft. A First Information Report was registered against an unidentified person at Airport police station after statements were recorded of passengers and forensic samples were collected,” Zone IV Deputy Commissioner of Police Kanan Desai said.
The FIR has been registered section 351(3) (criminal intimidation by treating to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any property by fire) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and relevant sections of Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation Act 1982, the DCP said. (PTI)
