New Delhi: Last week, a city court sentenced chartered accountant Jitendra Kumar Mohla, 45, to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of having created a hijack scare on an Indigo flight three years earlier. The ruling was the first of its kind but the scare that he was convicted of having created, whether it is about a hijack or a bomb, is something very frequent.
In the past two years, there have been 30 such hijack alerts, say officials of security agencies involved in airline and airport operations. They say the alerts, which always turn out to be hoaxes, are a drain on resources, besides creating a strain on passengers.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and cricketer Zaheer Khan have been among the passengers of the flights involved in these fake alerts. In December 2011, the Chennai police received a call that there was a bomb on the prime minister’s special aircraft when he arrived at Tiruchi airport in Tamil Nadu. Since it concerned the PM, the anti-sabotage check was conducted by Special Protection Group personnel while the terminal buildings were sanitised by the CISF. It took three hours of checks to conclude that it was a hoax call.
15/11/12 VijaitaSingh/Indian Express
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In the past two years, there have been 30 such hijack alerts, say officials of security agencies involved in airline and airport operations. They say the alerts, which always turn out to be hoaxes, are a drain on resources, besides creating a strain on passengers.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and cricketer Zaheer Khan have been among the passengers of the flights involved in these fake alerts. In December 2011, the Chennai police received a call that there was a bomb on the prime minister’s special aircraft when he arrived at Tiruchi airport in Tamil Nadu. Since it concerned the PM, the anti-sabotage check was conducted by Special Protection Group personnel while the terminal buildings were sanitised by the CISF. It took three hours of checks to conclude that it was a hoax call.
15/11/12 VijaitaSingh/Indian Express
