The airport authority promptly informed the concerned departments, including the police, and the bomb detection and disposal squad was deployed to inspect the area
A Kerala resident was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Friday for allegedly threatening to blow up the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here if he was not paid "one million US dollars in Bitcoin".
In the email, the unidentified person threatened to blow up Terminal 2 of the Mumbai Airport if one million dollars, in Bitcoin, were not paid to him within the next 48 hours.
Mumbai police and other agencies at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport were put on alert after they received a threat call on Monday. According to officials, the caller introduced himself as Irfan Ahmed Sheikh and said that he was a member of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen. 📰 Mumbai Airport Threat Call Case: Man From Govandi Arrested for Threatening To Blow Up Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
An unidentified person made a threat call to the Mumbai police's traffic control room and claimed that the lives of 19 people at the international airport in Mumbai were in danger, an official said today.