Just in: Fresh threat call for AI 215 Delhi-Kathmandu; flight further delayed, will take off only after security clearances.

Two flights, one each of Air India and Jet Airways, were grounded today just before their departure for Kathmandu from Delhi following a bomb scare.

The passengers on both the planes were put into different flights. Rabi Thapa, who was flying to Kathmandu on the Air India flight said his flight had just left and said the threat was believed to be a laptop bomb.

Airport sources said that the two flights were halted after the Jet Airways security office at Indira Gandhi International Airport here received an anonymous call saying there was a "bomb threat" to Air India flight AI-215 and Jet Airways flight 9W 260. The two flights were scheduled to take off for the Nepalese capital at 1.15 pm and 1.25 pm, respectively.

This is the second such incident of grounding of an aircraft due to a bomb scare as on Saturday the same flight of Jet Airways was delayed by six hours due to the grounding of the plane after a bomb threat call, which turned out to be a hoax. While 121 passengers were booked on the Air India flight, Jet Airways said it had 122 passengers and seven crew on board its flight 9W 260.