Over 20 Indian Flights Received Bomb Threats In A Week!

Indian Flights Received Bomb Threats

Days after several bomb threats to flights were made on social media, Central intelligence agencies have identified the IP addresses from where threats were posted to London and Germany. This week alone saw over 20 flights belonging to Indian airlines — domestic as well as international — threatened with bombs on board. Three foreign airlines’ Indiain bound flights received bomb threats on Monday and another 10 flights received bomb threats on Tuesday. The following day, there were at least six threats of that nature. 

These threats were by means of social media and after doing security clearance, they were informed to be fake.As soon as the Central intelligence agencies began working on this they first sought from X the IP addresses of all the posts. They also requested the account be shut down, a source said.

“We have seen the initial reports and they have stated that tweets came from three different profiles. Of these three handles, they have traced two of the IP addresses; two generic ones originating from London and Deutschland. The users have tweeted after using a virtual private network or VPN – an encrypted connection over the Internet between a device and a remote server that is designed to conceal one’s identity. Waiting for the liability report of another handle are still awaited, and after getting those replies regarding the bomb threats, the Central intelligence agencies have asked X to share some more details and are still waiting for the reply, a source added.

IGI Airport Police said that they responded to seven cases of  bomb threats reported in this month. Following the verifications and inspection for threats all of the identified threats were proved to be fake. In order to check all such misuse of the system and to ensure safety and security of passengers and other operations at the airport, legal actions have already been taken against those involved in raising false alarms, said Deputy Commissioner Usha Rangnani.

An FIR has already been lodged to the Delhi Police under sections 217 and 351 (4) of the BNS and section 3(1)(d) of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil  Act 1982 in connection with the recent hoax bomb threats.

While a particular study is ongoing and coordinated with the given social medial platform concerned, everybody involved in sending out such fake threats has been barred from creating more.There are already rules and regulation in this regard but having talks with MoCA senior officials reveal that new stricter laws are being contemplated to allow the government to blacklist the culprits behind such threats — to bar them from flying Indian carriers.