Bengaluru: Hours after hoax bomb threat call to airport, cops arrest accused who wanted to trap brother-in-law

The accused has been identified as Shubhashish Gupta, who had earlier worked at the airport. “The accused stays at a paying guest (PG) in Wilson Garden from where he was arrested. He wanted to trap his brother-in-law who is going through a divorce with his sister,” the police told The Indian Express.

After receiving the hoax bomb threat call, the police had reached the airport along with the CISF and a dog squad and conducted a search in the entire airport.

A complaint was filed with the Vidhana Soudha police by a sub-inspector of the Command Centre in the office of the Commissioner of Police in Bengaluru after the agencies declared the airport safe and said the call was a hoax. The Vidhana Soudha police immediately started investigations and traced the accused’s mobile number which he used to make the hoax call to the airport.