Amid a spate of fake bomb threats targeting Indian airlines, the Center on Saturday told social media platforms to remove or block access to disinformationotherwise, they would no longer be safe from criminal action.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology it also said that social media platforms have an “additional responsibility…under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita” to report acts that could threaten national security. Such entities must also provide information and help to investigating agencies, the government said.

The ministry said that if social media firms do not take these actions, the exemption from liability for third-party information will no longer apply to them – meaning they could face criminal action for misinformation posted on their platforms.

The center said in its advisory: “Such fake bomb threats, which affect a large number of citizens, also destabilize the country’s economic security.” She added that the scale of such threats has become “dangerously limitless” because of the options to re-route, republish or retweet misinformation.

“Such fake bomb threats are largely misinformation that massively disrupts public order, airline operations and airline passenger security,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said.

In the last 12 days, over 275 flights operated by Indian carriers received fake bomb threats, PTI reported. Most of the threats were issued via social media. As a result, several flights were diverted or delayed.

On Monday, the Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Kinjarapu Naidu said the Center is considering legislative measures to include people found guilty of making false threats to flights on the no-fly list..

More than a dozen first information reports have been registered by Mumbai Police and Delhi Police in connection with the recent threats to flights.