Overview

• The Mumbai Police Control Room received a call around 9 am on May 27 warning that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport would be blown up by 2 pm.
• MIDC Police used mobile data tracing to locate and arrest 35-year-old Manjeet Kumar Gautam within an hour of the threat call.
• Bomb squad and police teams conducted exhaustive searches of the airport but confirmed that no suspicious objects or explosives were present.
• Investigators say Gautam made the false threat after a domestic dispute with his wife, expressing suicidal frustration.
• This incident is the second bomb hoax targeting Mumbai airport in two weeks, following a May 17 email threat linked to the hanging of Afzal Guru.