Mumbai: A business class passenger was arrested on Monday for allegedly leaving a threat note inside the washroom of a Mumbai–Delhi Jet Airways flight, which said the aircraft had been hijacked and asked it to be flown to Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. The note warned that bombs would explode otherwise.
The discovery of the note by an air hostess led to the aircraft being diverted to Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhai Patel International Airport early on Monday.
The Ahmedabad police arrested Salla Birju, a jeweller from Gujarat’s Amreli area, who is now based in Mumbai, after it was established that he had done the mischief. According to the Ahmedabad police, the passenger allegedly confessed to his crime during interrogation. He said he placed the note in order to “disorganise” the operations of the flight.
Civil aviation minister Ashok Ganapathy Raju later tweeted, “I am informed that the person responsible has been identified. I am advising the Airlines to put him on the No-Fly list immediately.”
