MP youth held for making ‘threat call’ to AI; says did it for fun

A 20-year-old youth from Madhya Pradesh has been arrested in connection a threat call made to national carrier Air India’s Thane call centre last week, threatening to hijack an AI flight on November 28, and claimed that he did it “just out of fun”.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone-V, Vilas Chandanshive told a press conference at the Shrinagar Police station here on Saturday that the youth was nabbed from Harda district of Madhya Pradesh, yesterday, and an offence has been registered against him.

He was produced before a local court which remanded him to police custody till December 2.

According to preliminary investigations, the youth, who is a class XII student, had made the call “just out of fun”, though state ATS and Intelligence Bureau were also roped in to look into the matter taking into consideration the gravity of the call.