Overview

• The terminal manager received a bomb threat call on 29 August instructing immediate evacuation, and a joint police–CISF search confirmed it was a hoax.
• Investigators identified the caller as Sasikumar, 38, of Vellore in Tamil Nadu, and a Mangaluru city police team detained him in Vellore.
• During interrogation, the accused confessed to routinely harvesting airport contact numbers online and making threatening calls to multiple airports.
• He was produced before a magistrate and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
• A case has been registered at Bajpe police station under BNS Sections 351(2) and 351(3) and Section 3(1)(d) of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Civil Aviation Act, with police noting a prior arrest in a separate airport threat email case four months earlier.