The hoax bomb threats will be curbed down at the earliest, assured the Director General of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), Zulfiquar Hasan, as he emphasised that Indian skies are absolutely safe and urged the passengers to fly without fear.
After a series of hoax bomb threats received by all Indian airlines in the last four days, the Director General (DG) of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) held a meeting of the airlines at the BCAS headquarters in Delhi on Saturday.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) is in talks with the other concerned ministries to make required amendments in the existing laws to make them more stringent to deal with the cases of hoax bomb threats for flights, MoCA sources said.
In response to the recent spate of hoax bomb threats targeting various flights, including Indian airlines, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said that necessary actions were being taken and ruled out any larger conspiracy behind these events.
A senior official from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) confirmed that the decision to double the number of Air marshals has been taken recently after assessment of the growing threat and getting inputs from intelligence agencies.
Multiple bomb threats targeting Air India flights have led to emergency landings and heightened security measures in Canada and Singapore. US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller emphasised the severity of these threats, while Singapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen detailed th
Multiple schools received bombs threats for the second day in a row in the Tiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu, police officials confirmed on Friday.