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Youth arrested from Dum Dum airport for making fake video call of hijack and threatening to blow up airplane

Youth arrested from Dum Dum airport for making fake video call of hijack and threatening to blow up airplane

Kolkata, Nov 26 (UNI) A city youth, identified as Jugbedan Poddar (22), was today arrested from Dum Dum airport for making " terror call like to blow up the airplane and like hijack of the aircraft" while sitting on board in the Mumbai bound flight, police investigating the threatened, making call said.
The youth boarded Kol-Mumbai flight (9W472), covering his face, and he took selfie and then started video calling to his friends from the aircraft saying the " aircraft is taken over by the terrorists". He was accused to make call to this four friends. While he was making this co-passengers informed the aircraft attendants and the pilot after communicating to air traffic controllers took the aircraft to taxi-way and handed over to the CISF.
All the boarders (160) were first off ,loaded and the security officials made a further check up before the journey.

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