Mangaluru: Mangaluru City Police arrested a man from Tamil Nadu for allegedly making a hoax bomb threat call to Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Aug 29, warning that the terminal building would be destroyed if it is not evacuated. The accused is Sasikumar, 38, a resident of Vellore district.City police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH said that on the night of Aug 29, an anonymous person made a phone call to MIA, threatening that the terminal building must be evacuated, otherwise it would be destroyed.Based on the complaint filed by the duty terminal manager at MIA, a case was registered at Bajpe police station, Crime under Sections 351(2), 351(3) of BNS and Section 3(1)(d) of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982.The commissioner said that the accused was traced and taken into custody in Vellore. On interrogation, the accused confessed that he searched for the mobile numbers of airports across the country on social media and made threatening calls, including to MIA, where he warned that the terminal building must be evacuated or else he would destroy it.The accused was produced before the jurisdictional court and is presently in judicial custody.
