Running Late For Flight, Man Makes Hoax Bomb Call, Arrested

By the time Jay Krishna Kumar Mehta, a native of Supaul in Bihar, made the call, the SpiceJet flight had already departed for Delhi, they said.

A Noida-based BPO employee was arrested for allegedly making a hoax bomb call in an attempt to delay his flight from Dharbhanga in Bihar to Delhi as he was running late, police said on Saturday.

By the time Jay Krishna Kumar Mehta, a native of Supaul in Bihar, made the call, the SpiceJet flight had already departed for Delhi, they said.

Once it landed at the IGI airport here, the passengers were deplaned and it was taken to an isolated bay for a thorough search and no bomb was found, an official said.