Passenger behind hijack scare arrested, jailed

August 3rd, 2009 Mom: NY LaGuardia bomb scare suspect mentally illNEW YORK — The mother of the homeless man arrested on charges of causing a bomb scare at LaGuardia Airport says her son has a psychiatric disorder. Margie Jones tells the New York Daily News in Monday's editions that her son, 32-year-old Scott McGann, suffers from catatonic schizophrenia.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A passenger on board an IndiGo Airlines flight from Delhi to Mumbai created a scare Thursday when he falsely claimed there was a bomb in the aircraft and asked the crew to divert the plane to Pakistan. According to a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official, the passenger, later identified as Sanjay Malik, created panic at around 11.45 a.m.

July 10th, 2009 Man jailed 14 years for court contempt to be freedMEDIA, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man jailed for contempt of court for 14 years has been ordered released.

May 5th, 2009 GAYA - Personnel of Bihar Police arrested a few persons involved in the kidnapping of a young boy and conducting his marriage with a girl child by force in Gaya district. A 15-year-old boy named Lal Babu was kidnapped on Sunday for the wedding, which was solemnised under compulsion and at gunpoint.

April 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An Air India aircraft had a bomb scare Wednesday after a man in Mumbai called the airline and said a bomb was placed on it, an official said, adding that the plane was being searched and all passengers were safe. All passengers were moved out of the aircraft as soon as it landed at Jaipur airport and a bomb disposal squad took over the plane, an airline spokesman said.

April 20th, 2009 KINGSTON/TORONTO - All 174 passengers and six crew of a Canadian airliner were safe after a hijacker stormed the plane at a Jamaican airport. CanJet Airlines flight 918, which was on its way to Cuba from Halifax (Canada), had stopped at Montego Bay in Jamaica when the gunman breached security Sunday night to board the plane 40 minutes before its departure.

April 14th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for Orissa's Kandhamal parliamentary constituency, Ashok Sahu, was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged inflammatory speech in the communally sensitive region of Raikia town on April 5. Sahu, a retired Indian Police Service officer, was arrested in Phulbani town after allegedly evading the police for days.

April 14th, 2009 BALASINOR - Keeping up his high-decible attack on the Congress, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday asked why the party-led government had not arrested those conspirators behind the 1999 airplane hijack. Addressing a rally during the first leg of the poll campaign in Kheda district in central Gujarat, Modi replied to Congress leaders' criticism of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government's handling of the hijack episode of 1999.

April 7th, 2009 COIMBATORE - Two sandalwood smugglers were arrested and jailed here Tuesday and contraband worth Rs.1.5 million was seized from them, the Tamil Nadu police said. 'A. Mohammed, 37, was fleeing in a van with contraband sandalwood worth Rs.1.5 million.

March 19th, 2009 HONG KONG - A Hong Kong teenager who robbed seven prostitutes at knifepoint, in some cases after having had sex with them, was jailed for six years Thursday. Li Ka-chun, 18, carried out a series of robberies in June 2008 in inner-city flats where the prostitutes worked by themselves.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jitender Kumar Mohala, arrested for his alleged aggressive behaviour aboard an IndiGo flight from Goa to Delhi that caused a mid-air hijack scare, Thursday moved a court here for bail and the plea will be heard Friday. In his bail plea moved through advocate H.S.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Security agencies Monday reconstructed the events that led to the mid-air hijack scare on board an IndiGo flight and created panic at the Delhi airport here. Delhi Police Monday formally arrested Jitender Kumar Mohala, 42, and a court sent him to jail for 14 days for his allegedly aggressive behaviour on board the flight from Goa to Delhi.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jitender Kumar Mohala was arrested Monday and sent to jail for 14 days, after his allegedly aggressive behaviour on board an IndiGo flight from Goa to Delhi caused a mid-air scare Sunday and sent security agencies into a tizzy at the airport here. Delhi Police arrested Mohala under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 336 (endangering life or personal safety of others) and 506 (criminal intimidation) as well as under the provisions of the Civil Aviation Act, 1982.

January 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - An emergency landing at Delhi airport Sunday afternoon created a scare as the pilot reported suspected hijackers on board after a passenger's misbehaviour, but the crisis blew over later in the evening. Security forces rushed to the Indira Gandhi International Airport after the pilot of an Indigo aircraft reported suspected hijackers on board, an official said.

December 29th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Stung by references to the Kandahar plane hijack of 1999, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop his party and cabinet colleagues from making 'condemnable' statements. The party referred to Sunday's statement by Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government avoided a repeat of the Kandahar plane hijack in Mumbai by rejecting the terrorists' demand to release some jailed militants in exchange for the hostages they had taken.