A tour manager detained by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at the Mumbai airport on Friday for
claiming he was a “human bomb” has denied he made the remark and alleged that the CISF tricked him into
writing a note of apology.
Ahmedabad-based travel company manager, Akul Patel, 36 – who was detained just before he was to board an Emirates flight to Oslo – was granted bail by a magistrate’s court on Monday. The CISF, however, said that there was no reason for them to pick on Patel among the thousands of passengers screened at the Mumbai airport on Friday.
“In aviation industry across the world, when a passenger utters words like ‘bomb’ or ‘terror attack’, it is considered a serious breach of security protocol. We followed the procedure,” said CISF spokesman Hemendra Singh.
This is the second case in Mumbai of a passenger making light of aviation security protocol. South Mumbai diamond trader Birju Salla was convicted and sentenced to life in jail in June this year for a note he left in a Jet Airways flight about an imminent terror attack. According to the investigations carried out by the National Investigating Agency (NIA), Salla wanted his wife, a Jet employee in Delhi, to move to Mumbai to live with him. He thought the “terror note” would lead Jet to shut its Delhi operations and transfer her to Mumbai. CISF on Monday said senior officers present at the gate when Patel claimed to be a “human bomb” will testify in the case.
“We also have his apology letter – a clear admission of guilt,” Singh said. Patel’s passport has been seized and he has been asked to report to a police station in Ahmedabad every Sunday. He will also have to mark his presence at the Sahar police station in Mumbai once every fortnight. Talking to Mumbai Mirror on Monday in his lawyer’s office, Patel claimed his detention was all a big misunderstanding.
“All I did was answer the four questions posed to me at the security check. Travelling, taking people on tours is my job. Why would I make such a faux pas? My passport has been impounded. My career ruined. Now I will have to come to Mumbai from Ahmadabad once every fortnight,” he said. Patel said after he was detained, CISF officials asked him to write a letter of apology and promised that if he complied he would be put on the next flight to Oslo. “But the moment I finished writing the letter, they arrested me,” he said.
02/07/19 Vallabh Ozarkar/Mumbai Mirror
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Ahmedabad-based travel company manager, Akul Patel, 36 – who was detained just before he was to board an Emirates flight to Oslo – was granted bail by a magistrate’s court on Monday. The CISF, however, said that there was no reason for them to pick on Patel among the thousands of passengers screened at the Mumbai airport on Friday.
“In aviation industry across the world, when a passenger utters words like ‘bomb’ or ‘terror attack’, it is considered a serious breach of security protocol. We followed the procedure,” said CISF spokesman Hemendra Singh.
This is the second case in Mumbai of a passenger making light of aviation security protocol. South Mumbai diamond trader Birju Salla was convicted and sentenced to life in jail in June this year for a note he left in a Jet Airways flight about an imminent terror attack. According to the investigations carried out by the National Investigating Agency (NIA), Salla wanted his wife, a Jet employee in Delhi, to move to Mumbai to live with him. He thought the “terror note” would lead Jet to shut its Delhi operations and transfer her to Mumbai. CISF on Monday said senior officers present at the gate when Patel claimed to be a “human bomb” will testify in the case.
“We also have his apology letter – a clear admission of guilt,” Singh said. Patel’s passport has been seized and he has been asked to report to a police station in Ahmedabad every Sunday. He will also have to mark his presence at the Sahar police station in Mumbai once every fortnight. Talking to Mumbai Mirror on Monday in his lawyer’s office, Patel claimed his detention was all a big misunderstanding.
“All I did was answer the four questions posed to me at the security check. Travelling, taking people on tours is my job. Why would I make such a faux pas? My passport has been impounded. My career ruined. Now I will have to come to Mumbai from Ahmadabad once every fortnight,” he said. Patel said after he was detained, CISF officials asked him to write a letter of apology and promised that if he complied he would be put on the next flight to Oslo. “But the moment I finished writing the letter, they arrested me,” he said.
02/07/19 Vallabh Ozarkar/Mumbai Mirror
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