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Delhi Airport: UP Man On Dubai-Bound Vistara Flight Arrested Over Bomb Threat

The man on a Dubai-bound Vistara flight was arrested at Indira Gandhi International Airport after a female co-passenger heard him talking about a bomb on phone.

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A male passenger travelling on a Dubai-bound Vistara flight was arrested at Delhi airport following a co-passenger complaint. The female passenger on the flight complained that she heard the man talk about a bomb over the phone, as per ANI's report. The man in the incident was later identified as Azeem Khan from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh. The man was later apprehended by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and was later arrested by Delhi Police.

As per ANI, the incident occurred on June 7, after a female passenger on the Dubai-bound flight raised a complaint to one of the flight attendants about the man talking about a bomb. However, nothing was found after Delhi Police initiated an investigation into the matter.

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The person accused of creating the hoax bomb threat at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport was booked under section 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 268 (public nuisance). 

Recently, there have been multiple instances of a hoax bomb threat. Recently, a flight from Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport was grounded because of a threat. 

The Qatar Airways flight from Kolkata to London via Doha was delayed after a passenger began shouting that there was a bomb in the plane. At the time of the incident, the flight had 541 passengers on board and was getting ready to take off at 3.29 am on Tuesday. However, the passenger was off-loaded after the threat on flight.

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