Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Jul 26: Five persons were arrested by the police in connection with a bomb hoax over telephone received by Hyderabad airport authorities on Tuesday July 22. After the call stating that a bomb was planted in a flight departing from the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) scheduled to leave between 4 and 4.30 pm was received, the said airport had passed on the information to BIA, which arranged for a thorough security check of the flights leaving the airport during that period. The Jet Airways flight to New Delhi by which chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and Chattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh were scheduled to travel, was cancelled and they had to take another flight later in the day.

One of the arrested persons is 19-year-old Dharamvir Singh alias Pappu, son of Rannu Singh, a resident of Gulbarga. He is the grandson of the late Dharamvir Singh, elder brother of ex-state chief minister Dharam Singh. Pappu, a student, is said to have made the hoax call. After interrogating him and his four friends who are in their twenties, the police have taken the five arrested persons to Bangalore. The arrests were made at around midnight on Thursday. The names of other arrested people are given as Harishankar Dubey, Hanuman Pradip Singh Takur, Harish Dashrath Singh Tewari and Amarprasad.

After a thorough check, the security men had found the call to be a hoax. The above arrests were made, on the complaint filed by the authorities at the airport police station in the city.