A Bengaluru-based techie has been arrested for making hoax bomb threat calls to Bengaluru and Delhi international airports last Saturday. A special team of the Bengaluru Police probing the hoax calls also solved a murder case as it arrested MG Gokul.

During interrogation Gokul not only admitted to making the hoax calls but also confessed to killing his wife. Gokul told the cops that he murdered his wife in July so that he can marry the wife of his friend.

Gokul told the police that he wanted to marry his friend Saju Jose's wife. To execute his nefarious plan, Gokul, a native of Thrissur in Kerala, called airport authorities in Bengaluru and Delhi threatening them of bombs on three international flights. The SIM card which Gokul used was acquired on Jose's name.

Two international flights were called back while one which was preparing for departure from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi was taken to an isolation bay last Saturday after the call was received.

The caller had claimed that there were bombs on three international flights - 9W078 of Jet Airways to Hong Kong, CX694 of Cathay Pacific also bound for Hong Kong and LX147 of Swiss Air to Zurich which later turned out to be hoax.

