Delhi Police have reached out to social media platforms, together with X (previously Twitter), to assemble details about the accounts chargeable for the posts of faux bomb threats disrupting home and worldwide flights. The transfer comes after an FIR was registered regarding a bomb risk focusing on an Akasa Air flight sure for Bengaluru, which had 180 passengers on board.
Following the registration of the FIR, police have intensified their investigation into this incident and a number of other others reported at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Worldwide (IGI) Airport over the previous month. A specialised staff, together with the cyber cell and Intelligence Fusion & Strategic Operations (IFSO), has been fashioned to deal with the probe. Authorities suspect that the person behind these threats could have used a Digital Personal Community (VPN) or darkish internet instruments to create a number of accounts and concern the threats.
Delhi Police have requested that social media platforms droop the accounts linked to those threats and take away the posts. “We suspect the usage of VPN or darkish internet browsers to create the accounts from which the threats have been posted,” an officer advised PTI, including that they’ve additionally requested the platforms to offer IP addresses to help their investigation.
Surge in Bomb Threats
This week alone, over 70 flights, each home and worldwide, have been topic to bomb threats, most of which have confirmed to be hoaxes. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Safety (BCAS) held an emergency assembly with airline CEOs and representatives to handle the surge in threats, which has induced widespread disruption at airports throughout India.
On Saturday, the scenario escalated additional when greater than 30 flights operated by main airways, together with Air India, Vistara, IndiGo, Akasa Air, SpiceJet, Star Air, and Alliance Air, obtained bomb threats. These incidents triggered heightened safety measures, leading to delayed flights, inconvenienced passengers, and plane being moved to isolation bays to comply with security protocols.
Because the frequency of those threats will increase, the civil aviation ministry is contemplating stricter measures, together with putting these chargeable for hoax threats on a no-fly checklist, to forestall additional disruptions.
