SOG nabs youth for making bomb-threat call to ATC at Ahmedabad Airport posing as undercover agent of ISIS

Ahmedabad/Bhuj:

The Special Operation Group of the crime branch of Ahmedabad police today nabbed a youth from Gandhidham in Kutch district in connection with a recent bomb-threat call to the Air Traffic Control room at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport here in the name of International terror outfit ISIS.

A police officer said that Pritesh Trivedi (27), a resident of Adipur in Gandhidham who was educated up to Master of Pharmacy and was in to medicine and scrap business was nabbed from Gandhidham- Kandla Highway today in this connection after technical surveillance.

He had using SKYPE made a call to the land line phone of the ATC (which he had got from Justdial site) on March 16 that he would bring bomb in a Cocacola tin from Syria. He said that the bomb which was to brought and used was similar to the one used to blast a plane in Egypt. He claimed that he was an undercover agent of ISIS for India. He has many friends in ISIS. He said that the intelligence inputs about it must have reached.

On technical surveillance his phone number 7487099992 was detected. He admitted his crime. It was revealed that he was addict of watching aircraft crash games on the internet and had also made several hoax calls to Gandhidham police control room in the past. During initial interrogation he said that he also wanted to check as to whether the police was capable of detecting a call made via internet.

A case under section 124 (A) and 177 of the IPC and section 66 (A) of IT Act was lodged in this regard in the Sardarnagar police station and the investigation was handed over to the SOG which after thorough investigation and tracking the call route has nabbed Pritesh. The mobile phone of Oppo brand used for the crime and an Asus notepad was also recovered from him.

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