10 of those arrested were from Mumbai

AMSTERDAM/MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Ten Bohra Muslims, out of the 12 held by Dutch security men, have Mumbai addresses, one of them is from Bahraich district in UP, while another is an Indian, with a Bahrain address.
The oldest among them is 49, while the youngest is 24. The Northwest flight from Minneapolis to Mumbai with 149 passengers was escorted back to Schiphol by two F-16 fighters on Wednesday.
As soon as the flight landed at Schiphol, the men were handcuffed and taken into custody by airport police. According to a US official, the plane turned back after crew members and air marshals saw the passengers trying to use mobiles and were passing the phones among themselves while the airliner was taking off.
He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject. "It was behaviour that average passengers wouldn’t do," the official said.
Northwest’s Dean Breest told TOI that though the airline had debriefed the pilot and the crew, it could not release any detail as it was now a police case.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the local prosecutor also refused to go into the details. They "got something" that was not allowed on board the flight and this matter was "important enough to be investigated", the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, as tense family members of the arrested men waited for some news about them in Mumbai, Sharma said in New Delhi that the Indian mission in Amsterdam has given consular access to them, though he was not sure whether or not they all held Indian passports.
Thursday was a day of confusion with Dutch authorities talking about the case with great caution. The confusion was confounded with different passengers giving different versions of what actually happened aboard NW0042.
Some passengers described the men as speaking Urdu, some with beards, and some in salwar-kameez, according to a report.
The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper quoted a 31-year-old Dutch businessman as saying the suspects were walking up and down the isle after takeoff. "I saw the air marshals walking, and then you know something’s wrong," it quoted him as saying.
Nitin Patel of Boston, who sat behind the men, told the paper, "I don’t know how close we were, but my gut tells me these people wanted to hijack the airplane." De Telegraaf quoted passenger Sarat Menon as quoting the men as saying they were returning from a vacation in Tobago.
"It wasn’t immediately clear what was going on. There was no panic. A flight attendant told us to remain seated and to follow the air marshals’ orders," Menon said.