AI Hijak Threat Caller Arrested

28 November, Thane

The city police have arrested a youth from Madhya Pradesh who allegedly made a threat call to the Air India (AI) call centre here of hijacking an AI flight on November 28, (today).

Addressing a news conference this morning at the Shree Nagar police station where an offence had been registered against the caller Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone-V Vilas Chandanshive told newsmen that preliminary investigations revealed that the youth who was arrested yesterday had made the call.

He said that though the youth informed the police that he had made the call out of fun the police were taking itseriously and the ATS and the IB were also involved in the interrogation of the youth who has been remanded into police custody upto December 02, 2015.

”We have taken this case very seriously and will take all measures in the investigations. We cannot ignore this casually,” he said.

On the night of November 20, the call centre of the AI situated at Shrenagar in Wagle Estate received the threat. The caller from the other side identified himself as from the ISIS.