Calls from dejected lover causing inconvenience to Hubballi airport officials!'
Hubballi, February 7: A phone call from a dejected lover to the local airport has become a headache for the airport officials and staffs and even the police complaint seeking action against the person has yielded no results!
Hailin from Goa, but settled in Dubai, Roy Dias, has been calling the airport officials for the last one and half years. He has been calling the Air Traffic Control which controls the air traffic. Normally, the ATC will not get any other calls other than air traffic related calls. But Roy Dias has been calling the same ATC during the movement of flights, airport sources said.
“Normally, ATC room will get information about the movement of every flight. So, we cannot dislodge the telephone receiver. If it is placed in order, we have to face his torture. Every time, he asks us to give phone to his lover. He has been calling right from the time of previous airport director Shivananda Benala. He has been calling for almost40-50 times a day. If we keep quiet, he will threaten us to blast the airport. We don’t know as to why the police are silent even if he threatened to blast the airport”, the officials expressed their helplessness.
Dejected lover
According to airport staff, Roy Dias hailed from Goa. Roy and a woman working in Goa airport were in love with each other. After she was transferred to Hubballi airport, she has not taken the love issue seriously. But Roy used to call her every day and caused to break her marriage with other man. Depressed over his behavior, she changed her mobile number. Later, Roy went to Dubai for work and now, he has been trying to contact her, said airport officials.
Hubballi-Dharwad police commissioner MN Nagaraj said that the police have been trying to trace the person who has been threatening and calling the airport.
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Airlines got 999 hoax bomb threats till Nov 14 this year; 256 FIRs filed: Govt
New Delhi, Nov 28: Airlines received 999 hoax bomb threats this year till November 14 and as many as 256 FIRs have been filed while guidelines have been issued by aviation security regulator BCAS for objective assessment of threats, the government said on Thursday.
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said a total of 1,148 hoax bomb threat messages/calls have been received since August 2022 till November 14, 2024 threatening the operations of international and domestic air travel.
While 999 threats were received by airlines during the period from January to November 14, 2024, the count stood at 122 last year and at 27 for the August-December 2022 period.
"256 FIRs have been filed since January 2024 till 14 November 2024, out of which 163 FIRs have been filed during 14 October- 14 November 2024. 12 arrests have been made in view of hoax bomb threat since January 2024 till 14 November 2024," the minister said.
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has issued guidelines for objective assessment of threats. The indicative factor has been useful in reducing time taken by the Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) during the decision-making process.
"Also, to reduce the overall time taken for convening BTAC to less than 5 minutes, virtual assembly of BTAC through pre-generated video link has been set up. Further, advisories for compulsory 10 per cent of secondary ladder point check-in for all flights, strict monitoring of non-scheduled flight operations, enhanced security measures and surveillance at cargo terminals were issued," Mohol said.
Further, the minister said the government is considering amending the Aircraft (Security) Rules, 2023 to put hoax threat messenger in the no-fly list.
"It is also being considered to amend Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation for covering Aircraft in flight as well as on ground, airport etc," he added.
