MUMBAI: Hoax calls are taken seriously. A Jaipur-based choreographer who was running late for his Mumbai-bound flight learned it the hard way on Tuesday. He made a hoax call to IndiGo’s call centre saying an explosive had been planted on its 5am Jaipur-Mumbai flight.Mohit Kumar Tank (25) was detained by the CISF on his arrival at Jaipur airport and handed over to the police, who arrested him under sections 505 (statements conducive to public mischief) and 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) of the IPC. Deputy commissioner of police (Jaipur east) Kuwar Rastradeep said that Tank has also been booked under Section 3(D) of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982, which attracts a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.According to police, Tank, a frequent flyer to Mumbai, was to take the 5am flight to Mumbai. On realising he would not make it to the airport in time, he dialled the airline’s call centre and warned of a bomb. “He hoped it would lead to confusion and delay the flight. But the flight was already in the air,” an officer told TOI.Airline lured hoax caller with another Mum ticketThe airlines, in its statement, said that the Indi-Go call centre received a call at 5.30am on Tuesday morning from an unidentified person mentioning a bomb threat to 6E 218 operating a Jaipur-Mumbai flight.“We immediately reported the matter to the bomb threat assessment committee (BTAC) and followed the security protocol. The concerned authorities carried out the investigation and declared the call a ‘specific bomb threat’,” the statement read, adding that following the clearance by the authorities, operations were resumed as normal.

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