Lucknow: A passenger was interrogated by airport authorities here after he raised a hoax bomb threat at the Lucknow Airport, said police. The passenger has been identified as Piyush Verma who said there was a bomb on a Chennai bound IndiGo flight, that was scheduled to depart at 7:25 pm on Saturday.

"Verma was travelling from Lucknow to Delhi. At the airport, he asked a passenger where he was travelling to. When the passenger replied that he was travelling to Chennai, Verma started screaming that there was a bomb on a Chennai bound IndiGo flight," said Amit Kumar, Circle Officer (CO), Krishna Nagar.