Mangaluru: The Fourth Additional District and Sessions Court yesterday sentenced a man, accused of placing explosives at Mangaluru International Airport, to 25 years imprisonment besides imposing a fine of Rs. 10,000. The man who was sentenced is Aditya Rao. He had placed the explosives at Mangaluru Airport on Jan. 20, 2020.
He was sentenced under sections of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and Explosives Act. The Police had found a low-intensity Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in an unattended bag at the Mangaluru International Airport premises and the bomb detection and disposal squad had successfully defused the explosive in an exercise that lasted several hours. Mangaluru Police had released the CCTV footage of a man suspected to have planted the bomb.
