Mangaluru : The Mangaluru International Airport wherein a Mangaluru-Mumbai flight was delayed by three hours after a passenger raised an alarm about a suspicious text message received on the mobile phone of a fellow traveller from his female friend in under investigation by the Police of Bajpe.

Meanwhile the Directorate General of Civil Aviation was thinking of imposing a travel ban on the young man and the woman who created a lot of confusion as well as confusion due to their act.

The police have now registered a case against Deepayan Maji (23) and Simran Tom(23) under IPC Section 505, 1(b) and (c). Both are being subject to interrogation.

The young pair hailing from Gaziabad in Uttar Pradesh had been to Manipal. It is learnt, Deepayan who had studied in Manipal had brought his so called friend Simran to show her Manipal.

The two had spent time in Manipal and surrounding areas for a few days. On Sunday morning, Simran was to catch a flight to Chennai from Bengaluru while Deepayan had to travel to Vadodara from Mumbai. Both were at the Mangaluru International Airport.

Just as the flight which Deepayan had boarded was ready for take-off, he received a message from Simran who was in the boarding saying “You are going with so many Muslims, u r da bomber,”

A fellow passenger who saw the message raised an alarm and informed the airport authorities and immediately isolated the flight that was supposed to take off to Mumbai and all passengers were checked. It later left after a three hour delay.

Simran was pursuing MA (HR) final year in Chennai while Diyapan was an engineer at L&T in Vadodara.

IndiGo Manager had lodged a complaint with a mention of the message.