B'luru Airport bomb hoax: Caller arrested, says did it to punish brother-in-law for divorcing sister
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Police on Friday arrested a man for making a hoax threat call to Kempegowda International Airport in the wee hours of Friday causing panic among the passengers and security officials.
Hours after the hoax call, the police launched an investigation into the matter and traced the caller who had identified himself as Deepak on call. The caller who was later arrested by the cops has been identified as Subhashish Gupta.
The police said that he did it as an act of revenge against his brother-in-law, according to The News Minute. He made the call in his brother-in-law’s name to supposedly punish him for divorcing his sister, the police said.
Gupta, however, had made the call from his cellphone, which was traced to a paying guest accommodation at the city’s Wilson Garden area.
The police and Central Industrial Security Force posted at the airport were alerted after the control room received the call in the wee hours of Friday, following which bomb detection and disposal squads, as well as dog squads, carried out searches at the airport for abandoned bags or cargo.
After hours of extensive search and drills, the security officials had declared the call as hoax threat call and had initiated investigation into the matter.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
