Bomb Scare

The Mumbai International Airport received an email warning about a bomb on an IndiGo airplane, informed officials on October 2. Following the bomb scare, security has been tightened at the airport. The information has been termed a “hoax”. The flight which was mentioned in the mail, was delayed and checked thoroughly. After dismissing the claims, the flight continued to take off and land at Ahmedabad without any hassle.

The Birsa Munda Airport in Jharkhand's Ranchi received a bomb threat from an unknown person on July 28. The security officials upon receiving the threat, conducted a thorough search, and found nothing suspicious. The airport then declared the threat, a "hoax". Notably, Birsa Munda Airport has been ranked high in the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) survey. 

Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) found a suspicious toy-like object wrapped in polythene on April 5. A dog squad and bomb diffusion squad was rushed to the site. The bomb diffusion squad ruled out the possibility of it being an explosive and the surrounding areas were searched thoroughly. The location was deemed safe after the search as the area is close to Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Just a day after a bomb hoax call panicked a Noida-based hospital, a yet another bomb scare surfaced in Noida’s sector 63 on January 22 morning. Reportedly, the police received a call of suspicious packet on the road lying in un-owned condition outside a hospital. However, after a thorough rescue operation, the bomb disposal squad discovered that the bomb-like item was "neither an explosive nor a detonator.”