This comes at a time when Indian airlines have been hit by scores of fake bomb threats—mostly posted on social media platform X from anonymous and unverified accounts—over the past three weeks.

The flight landed at New Delhi airport on October 27, and all passengers were safely taken off the plane, ANI quoted an Air India spokesperson as saying.

Live round of ammunition found on Air India flight from Dubai, leading to FIR and security breach investigation.

Air India found an ammunition cartridge in the seat of a flight from Dubai to Delhi, prompting an immediate security investigation. This incident occurs amidst a series of hoax threats affecting numerous flights.

The Delhi Police are investigating a case of security breach after a live cartridge was found in a pocket seat of an Air India flight landing from Dubai recently, PTI reported. A police officer told PTI that an Air India staff found the live round of ammunition during routine cleaning on a flight on October 27.

The flight landed at New Delhi Airport on October 27 and all the passengers were safely disembarked from the flight

According to the details, the cartridge was found on the flight AI916 following it landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Ammunition cartridges were found in a seat pocket after an Air India flight from Dubai to New Delhi landed. A complaint was lodged with the Airport Police. In a separate incident, a bomb threat received by another Air India flight to New Delhi was declared a hoax after security checks at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport.