Chargesheet against man for hoax call about bomb on plane

Bhartesh Singh Thakur
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 4

A two-year-old love story ended with a hoax phone call about a bomb being planted on a plane bound for Kuwait.

A man wanted to stop his girlfriend from leaving India. The NIA has now filed a chargesheet against him in Panchkula court under Section 3 read with Section 4 of the Anti-Hijacking Act 2016 for making the hoax call which could lead to punishment of life imprisonment.

Bihar resident Nasrudeen, now 28, had gone to Chennai in 2011 and got engaged in the profession of stitching bags at different workshops. In May-June 2017, he met Jabina at a bag stitching workshop located in Mint area of Chennai. Both started liking each other.

Jabina was a divorcee and mother of two children. She used to stay with her mother Kathoon Bi and younger sister Karishma.

She went along with Nasrudeen to his native place in Sitamarhi in Bihar in December 2017.

They returned to Chennai after six to seven months at the time of marriage of Jabina’s younger sister.

From then onwards, Nasrudeen started living in the same rented house along with Jabina and her mother.

As Nasrudeen failed to fulfil her ambitions of a rich and better lifestyle, disputes arose between them.

In July 2019, Nasrudeen went back to Bihar and stayed there for a month. During this period, Jabina planned to work abroad and got employment as a housemaid in Kuwait through a travel agent. She was to leave on August 8, 2019.

Meanwhile, Nasrudeen boarded a train on August 6 from Darbhanga to Chennai. During the journey, he called up Jabina but she told him not to come as she was going to leave Chennai for Kuwait.

He requested her not to go but she refused and switched off her phone. Nasrudeen reached Chennai on August 8 but by that time, Jabina had left for Delhi.

He searched for “Delhi Airport Call Centre number” on Google and found out the number. One of his five calls informed that “four ladies, who came from Chennai, are carrying a bomb with them for planting in the flight going to Saudi or Dubai and the name of one lady among them is Jabina having fair complexion and small height”.

After his call, the CISF was alerted. Members of the Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) got active. They took the number of Jabina from Nasrudeen. The anti-sabotage checking of all the terminals, cargo and check posts was conducted.

During the BTAC meeting, Jabina was called up who, upon being questioned, got nervous and lied that she was in Chennai. Her mother and sister switched off their phones.

Jabina was offloaded as per the advice of the Immigration Department at Delhi. Later, she left India on August 10. A case was registered against Nasrudeen at Gurugram on August 9 and he was arrested on August 15.