YouTuber Vikas Gowda Arrested for False Claim of Spending Day at Bengaluru Airport.

Vikas Gowda, a resident of Yelahanka in Bengaluru, entered the airport with a ticket of Chennai-bound Air India flight on April 7 around 12 pm, according to authorities. He did not board the flight, but instead was roaming around the airport, recording a video on his mobile phone. He later uploaded the video on his YouTube channel, claiming to have spent an entire day at the airport and ventured into many areas of the airport premises. However, he later deleted the alleged video.

Gowda entered the airport, cleared the security check at Terminal-2 of the Kempegowda International Airport, and headed towards the boarding lounge. Instead of boarding the plane, he roamed around the airport premises for nearly six hours. After recording the video, he left the airport, stating to security personnel that he had missed his flight. Since he had a valid ticket and boarding pass, the security personnel did not suspect him.

Preliminary investigation suggested that he did it for publicity, and his claims in the video were an exaggeration. The matter came to the notice of airport security personnel on April 15, and a case was registered against Gowda under Sections 505 (Statements conducing to public mischief) and 448 (house trespass) of the Indian Penal Code. He was subsequently arrested and later released on bail, as per the police. *(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.

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