Missing flight? Try bomb hoax

That's what a Bangalore-bound techie did at IGI but got arrested for fake alarm

Twenty-five-year-old Abhishek Gupta, a software professional working with Infosys, Bengaluru, had almost got away with his hoax call about a bomb in a flight.

But as he was collecting his boarding pass from the ticketing counter at the Indira Gandhi International airport, he was arrested for raising a fake alarm. Gupta had allegedly called the call centre of GoAir and told them there was a 'suspicious object' inside the Bangalore-bound flight G8201. He was running late for the flight scheduled at 9.10 am on Sunday. According to the police, following the hoax call the flight, with 164 passengers on board, was grounded. The craft was delayed by about three hours.

Meanwhile, the cops traced the call to a cell phone in the premises of the airport. "We arrested him (Gupta) while he was collecting his boarding pass. Before making the hoax call he had called the call centre of the airlines twice and requested them to wait for him or transfer him to another flight," said an investigating official.
Gupta made the hoax call when allegedly his requests failed.

The official said Gupta was travelling to Delhi from Lucknow by the Gorakhnath Express. He was to reach the city by 6 am on Sunday. But his train was delayed.