Serial hoax bomb caller Aditya Rao was remanded to 10 days of police custody on being produced before the jurisdictional sixth JMFC court on Thursday.
Sixth JMFC judge Kishor Kumar K N upheld the investigating officer Assistant Commissioner of Police Belliyappa’s request seeking custody of Aditya Rao for in-depth investigation. Rao, who was arrested in Bengaluru and shifted to Mangaluru, was interrogated till the wee hours of Thursday. the police escorted Aditya for a medical check-up at the district Wenlock hospital.
The police have invoked stringent provisions under different laws.
“As he is an accused in a very important case, police will file a case under Section 5 of The Explosive Substances Act, 1908, Section 10,11, 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 (punishment for unlawful activities and conspiracy),” Mangaluru Commissioner of Police Dr P S Harsha said.
A case under Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC will be filed against Aditya, who reportedly confessed to making a hoax bomb call to Mangalore International Airport (MIA) terminal manager and warning him about a bomb in an Indigo flight.