Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Aug 30: A caller who was in the habit of creating bomb scare in the airport and railway station through fake calls was finally arrested by the police personnel of the police station at the international airport here on Tuesday August 28.
The arrested person happens to be Aditya Rao (34), an engineering graduate from Manipal in Udupi district.
It is said that Rao had called the terminal manager at the airport here twice during the last 15 days to claim that a bomb had been planted at the airport parking space. Later he called to say that the bomb had been planted on the way to parking. Based on the call, security at the airport had been tightened. Two days later, Aditya reportedly called the railway station to say that a bomb was to set off in a train soon. Thereafter he again called the airport to tell them that the bomb in question in fact was present inside an aircraft. It is also claimed that he had called the railway station once to threaten them to detonate the bomb there.
After Kempe Gowda International Airport Limited police took him into custody and questioned him, he also confessed to have made threat calls to the city railway station here.
Reportedly, Aditya Rao, a BE and MBA degree holder, had joined for work at the airport sometime back. He later left his job as he felt he was not properly treated by the officials there. He allegedly told the police that he made the threat calls on account of anger arising out of the above incident. The police who are questioning Rao further have come to know that he faces several cases in the city alone.
Because of his calls, several flights had been suspended and the airport here had suffered huge losses. The police began tracking his telephone number in view of the seriousness of the issue and found out his location on Tuesday.
Aditya had made the call to the airport by getting the telephone number by calling Just Dial. He reportedly sought the number from Just Dial by telling them that he wanted to fly to Pune.