MUMBAI: The Mumbai police have arrested two event organizers in the case of the mysterious aerial objects that had encroached Mumbai airport airspace on Saturday. Officials said that a diamond export company had organized a cricket tournament at Air India ground in Kalina on Saturday. The organiser, without any police permission, set off air balloons in the airport airspace for advertising his brand during the cricket tournament. A case of negligence has been registered at the airport police station. The accused will be produced before a local court on Tuesday.
The mysterious flying objects had sent security agencies in a tizzy. The Mumbai police had taken a suo-moto initiative to investigate the aerial objects as they are one of the agencies concerned with overall security.
Besides the Mumbai Police, the Indian Air Force, the Central Industrial Security Force, the DGCA, the Intelligence Bureau and the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security had been looking into the matter.
The aerial objects were spotted around 5.55 pm on Saturday rising from Kalina side. “A pilot with Jet Airways and another with Indigo noticed five of these aerial objects. An airport worker clicked their photographs. Air traffic was briefly halted by the ATC. We received intimation around 6.15 pm and made a round of the entire premises but could not spot the aerial objects theb. Staff at the ATC got busy with air traffic co-ordination and did not spot where the aerial objects landed,” senior inspector R Nagbhire of domestic airport police had told TOI. Nagbhire had also alerted the Juhu police apprehending that the aerial objects may land at Pawan Hans.
