Married man sends hijack hoax email to avoid trip with girlfriend

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Married man sends hijack hoax email to aviod trip with girlfriend

Krishna's girlfriend had hoped to take their relationship further in Goa, but it was not to be

 

Story highlights

• Hoax resulted in beefed up security at several airports
• But no flights were canceled

(CNN)Love can be tricky, especially when you're a married man with a child and you've got an online girlfriend who wants to go on vacation.

Police in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad arrested 32-year-old Motaparthi Vamshi Krishna on Thursday for allegedly sending a hoax email about an aircraft hijack plot.

According to a statement by Hyderabad police, in the email, which was sent to Mumbai police on Saturday, Krishna claimed to be a woman who had overheard six men plotting to hijack planes in the cities of Hyderabad, Chennai, and Mumbai the next day.

Mumbai police then alerted the security agencies, resulting in beefed up security at the concerned airports.

Investigators traced the IP address to an internet cafe called E Netzone in Hyderabad and were able to narrow down the email to eight people.

After examining CCTV footage from the area, police zeroed in on Krishna

Girlfriend trouble

Police said Krishna confessed during questioning. He told them he had an online girlfriend in Chennai who wanted to take their relationship to the next level and had proposed a trip to Mumbai and Goa.

The problem was, he didn't have enough money, and despite mentioning this to her, she really wanted to go

So, Krishna, a travel agent, came up with a plan. He created a fake ticket from Chennai to Mumbai for his girlfriend.

After sending her the ticket, he created a fake email address and sent the hoax email to the police.

The email read, hi sir am female here am doing this mail firm Hyderabad as I don't want to reveal my details course am a female and scared of issues, and mailing u this course in the afternoon around 2 pm while having lunch there were 6 guys talking those guys are Muslims, they were talking abt plane hijack tomorrow in Hyderabad Chennai and Mumbai airport they were talking very slowly but unfortunately I heard few conversations abt this, they were saying all us 23 people have to split from here and have to board flights to 3 cities and hijack them at a time. They spoke some other things also but I could not hear them as I heard only these few sentences from them, I don't know do am I doing correctly or not and they are true or not but heard this so kindly go through this and as I informed this as a duty and a citizen of India and pls don't make me get into issues.