Patna bound flight from Ahmedabad receives bomb threat, turns out to be hoax
Patna, Jun 4 (PTI): A Patna-bound IndiGo flight from Ahmedabad received a bomb threat on Wednesday, sending security personnel at the airport here into a tizzy.
However, the threat later turned out to be a hoax, officials said.
The bomb threat was received shortly before flight 6E921, carrying 192 passengers, was scheduled to land at the Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport at 12.45 pm.
The officials, however, refused to divulge how the threat message came.
“As a precaution, the flight was allowed a priority landing and it safely landed,” a Patna airport official said.
Senior officials of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and police reached the airport and a bomb squad was engaged.
"The aircraft was searched thoroughly for an hour and no suspicious items were found. After that the flight was declared safe,” Santosh Kumar, Station House Officer (SHO) of the Airport police station told PTI.
Further investigation is on, he added.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
