Police Arrested YouTuber For Entering Recording Video at Bengaluru Airport

A YouTuber returned after visiting Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. He entered the airport with a flight ticket, but did not catch the flight. Then he kept shooting the video there and after a few hours he came out saying that he had missed the flight. The YouTuber uploaded the video that he stayed there the whole day. Police have arrested the YouTuber for recording the video and later falsely claiming that he spent the entire day there.

According to NDTV report, police said that 23-year-old Vikas Gowda, a resident of Yelahanka, Bengaluru, entered the airport at around 12 noon on April 7 with a ticket for an Air India flight to Chennai. According to the police, he deliberately did not board the flight and wandered around the airport recording videos on his mobile phone.

The YouTuber had uploaded the purported video on his YouTube channel on April 12, falsely claiming that he had spent the entire day at the airport and had bypassed security and entered several areas of the airport premises. The YouTuber has around 1.13 lakh subscribers on YouTube. However, he later deleted the alleged video.

A senior police officer said, “He entered the airport and after going through the security check at Terminal 2 of Kempegowda International Airport, went towards the boarding lounge. But instead of boarding the plane, he wandered around the airport premises and left the airport.” But spent about 6 hours.”

After recording the video, he walked out of the airport telling the security that he missed his flight. He said that he had a valid ticket and boarding pass, so the security did not suspect him. He said that initial investigation suggests that he did this for publicity and made exaggerated claims in the alleged video.

The officer said the matter came to the notice of airport security on April 15 and based on a complaint by a CISF officer, a case was registered against Gowda under sections 505 (statements inciting public mischief) and 448 (house trespass) of the Indian Penal Code. A case was registered under IPC and he was arrested. However, police said Gowda was later released on bail.