Chennai, June 23: A 27-year-old man hailing from Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district has been arrested for making a hoax bomb threat to a Mumbai-bound Indigo Airlines flight recently, the police sai. The arrested person, identified as V Prasanna of Thiruvaiyaru, was picked by a team of officials from the Cyber Crime Police Station of Central Crime Branch, an official release said. IndiGo Plane Bomb Threat: Mumbai-Bound IndiGo Flight From Chennai Receive Bomb Threat Emails; Lands Safely.

The accused person had made the hoax threat to the Customer Service Centre of the airline here through a chat on June 18, claiming a bomb had been placed in a Chennai-Mumbai flight. A complaint was later registered with the cyber crime wing. The man was later remanded to judicial custody, the release added.

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