A 41-year-old arrested in Glasgow for making a scare on an easyJet flight by shouting slogans in opposition to US President Donald Trump and chanting “Allahu Akbar” has been recognized as a Bengaluru-origin man affected by a psychological dysfunction, in accordance with police sources.
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The household of the person, recognized as Abhay Devadas Nayak, has been tracked down in south Bengaluru, sources stated. Nayak has been accused of endangering the security of the easyJet plane flying from London Luton Airport to Glasgow on July 27.
Nayak belongs to a household concerned within the resort enterprise in Bengaluru. The household hails from the Honnavar area of the Uttara Kannada district. His father is within the resort enterprise, and his two siblings are medical doctors working overseas, police sources stated after a preliminary probe.
Nayak’s household has indicated that he’s a psychiatric affected person identified with schizophrenia, sources stated. “The household stated Nayak travelled world wide. His passport was issued in Bengaluru,” a supply stated.
The purported movies of the incident shared on social media present an individual standing up mid-flight and elevating slogans earlier than he’s wrestled down by passengers and members of the cabin crew. The movies present the person shouting “I’m going to bomb the airplane”, “Dying to America, loss of life to Trump”, and “Allahu Akbar”.
After he’s wrestled to the bottom by passengers, Nayak is heard saying that he raised the slogans since Trump was in Scotland that day, and he wished to register a protest. “I wish to ship a message to Trump,” he’s heard saying.
“There are households on this airplane,” a passenger is heard telling the person.
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Nayak additionally tells the co-passengers that he’s a passenger on seat quantity 11F, that he’s a refugee with no passport within the UK, that he has a card for residency in Wales, and that he has no bomb as claimed earlier.
The passengers are seen discovering an ATM card with the title Abhay in his pockets.
“We had been known as to a report of a person inflicting a disturbance on a flight arriving into Glasgow round 8.20 am on Sunday, 27 July, 2025,” the Scotland police stated in an announcement.
Nayak, who was arrested when the flight landed at Glasgow, was introduced in a court docket on Monday and didn’t plead responsible or not responsible. He’s anticipated to be taken to court docket once more subsequent week. Police sources in Karnataka stated that Nayak is more likely to be deported to India with out expenses.
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On-line information present Nayak began a non-public agency known as Antrix Ventures in Bengaluru in 2010 with a member of the family.
Experiences from the UK stated Nayak, who lived in Luton in Bedfordshire close to London, was charged beneath the UK’s Air Navigation Order, together with a cost of appearing in a reckless or negligent method to hazard an plane, or individuals in an plane.