One person has been arrested in connection with ahoax bomb call because of which a Mumbai-Delhi GoAir flight was stranded at theMumbai airport for hours on Saturday.
Sandeep Menon, an engineer, was arrested yesterday as hewanted to stop his business partner Ambrish Parikh from leaving the city andtherefore allegedly made a call saying that Parikh was carrying explosives,police said today.
Menon had called up the GoAir office in Mumbai andreportedly said that one of the passengers in the Delhi-bound flight was"a suicide bomber," police said.
During investigation, Menon told the police that he hadrecently won a contract from an educational institute in Oman to train over 300students for the IIT entrance exam. At that time, Menon had contacted Parikh ashe himself did not have an experience in vocational training.
Parikh was to design the study module and train theaspirants, police said.
When Parikh arrived in the city last week, he had askedMenon for an advance payment and this was when a dispute had erupted betweenthem, following which Parikh refused to take any persuasion from Menon andwanted to leave the city.
Later, Menon made a hoax call to the airliner.
A Mumbai-Delhi GoAir flight 343 returned to an isolated bayon Saturday night after the pilot informed the ATC of a bomb scare.
Menon had procured a SIM card using bogus documents to callup the airliner, police said.
The accused has been remanded to police custody tillNovember 19, they added.