Delhi Police have registered a case against a woman doctor who allegedly made a "hoax call" claiming presence of a person having "terrorist links" in a Dubai-bound aeroplane, delaying its departure from IGI Airport here yesterday.
"It was a hoax call. A case has been registered under provisions of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Civil Aviation Act. The caller is being questioned by the police," DCP (IGI Airport) D K Gupta said today.
From preliminary investigation, it appears that the caller, a female doctor based in south Delhi, had some personal enmity with the Aligarh-based individual who she claimed had terror links.
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Yesterday, security agencies deployed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here hauled up the authorities of a gulf carrier for an over three hours delay in informing them about a call that claimed a person travelling to Dubai had "terrorist" links.
Following the incident, the security threat assessment committee, comprising authorities of the airport security, Delhi police, CISF, Intelligence Bureau, immigration and counter-terror forces, raised concerns over the confusion prevailing between various stakeholders for filing a police FIR in this case.
Officials said that the security control room at the airport here received a call at about 9:00 AM from the Mumbai office of a gulf carrier that its staff has been informed by a lady that a person travelling to Dubai from Delhi in the said airline had "terrorist links".
While the call centre of the said airline received the call at 5:30 AM, the agencies at IGIA were informed about it only after over three hours at 9:00 AM, officials said.