Woman makes hoax bomb call to Bengaluru airport to prevent boyfriend flying to Mumbai, booked

According to the police, the accused has been identified as Indra Rajwar, who is from Pune and works in Bengaluru. “A woman contacted the airport helpline where she stated that Mir Raza Mehdi who was travelling from Bengaluru to Mumbai, had a bomb in his bag. She also mentioned that Mehdi was her boyfriend,” said a police officer from KIA Police Station.

The airport authorities immediately conducted a thorough frisking of Mehdi at the airport and found nothing incriminating. The Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) after the meeting decided to file a complaint with the police.

KIA officials also found that Indra Rajwar and Mehdi were at the Bengaluru airport at the same time. “Both of them had tickets booked for Mumbai on different flights and had been seen conversing in the departure lounge before Rajwar made the call to the helpline. She was taken to the police station and she admitted that she had called the airport helpline to prevent Mehdi from flying to Mumbai as there were some differences between them,” a police officer said.

The police later let her go but asked her to appear before them for questioning.