In a major security breach, a man managed to sneak into the Indira Gandhi International airport's crowded Terminal 3 with a pistol and ten live rounds on Friday. Senior officers said that the man was caught by CISF commandos during his hand baggage check at the security hold area (SHA). Friday's incident has once again fuelled the debate over requirements for change in the airport's current security plan, that allows a passenger to reach up to SHA, without being checked. Intelligence agencies were alerted about the incident.
In a major security breach, a man managed to sneak into the Indira Gandhi International airport's crowded Terminal 3 with a pistol and ten live rounds on Friday. Senior officers said that the man was caught by CISF commandos during his hand baggage check at the security hold area (SHA). Friday's incident has once again fuelled the debate over requirements for change in the airport's current security plan, that allows a passenger to reach up to SHA, without being checked. Intelligence agencies were alerted about the incident.
According to the CISF sources, it was around 3.45 pm when the passenger, who was later identified as Shah Faisal, reached the airport to board flight G9 466 to Sharjah, from Terminal 3 of IGI airport.
"During the scanning of his hand baggage at SHA, CISF's Assistant Sub Inspector Manu P Saji, detected something objectionable in his bag. The passenger was asked to cooperate for a thorough frisking, during which one country made pistol with 10 live cartridges of 8 mm caliber were recovered from his hand bag. The ASI immediately alerted the CISF commandos who took Faisal in their custody following a search.
The police was alerted and he was evacuated from the terminal which was crowded at the time of incident," said a senior CISF officer.
Later, during questioning, Faisal told police that the bag does not belong to him. "He said that the bag was handed over to him by one of his friends, Sahzaad, from Okhla and had asked him to deliver the bag to his brother in Dubai. Faisal was offloaded and handed over to Delhi Police which registered a case against him under Arms Act and other relevant sections. The man also was interrogated jointly by the police and intelligence sleuths," said a senior officer.
The incident has prompted the security agencies to rethink the existing security plan of the IGI airport. However, this is not the first incident at the Delhi airport that has raised security concerns.
In January 2016, a man had sneaked inside the airport with a fake ticket and spent 10 days at the international terminal, without being noticed by the airport's security officers. In March, a 23-year-old man was arrested after he managed to sneak in with a pistol up to the SHA of the international terminal of IGI.
On the early hours of Saturday, a Canadian national Mohinder Singh Bassi, who was travelling to Shanghai, was caught after the CISF personnel detected 6 live ammunitions of 0.32 mm caliber from his hand baggage.
"After the passenger could not produce any valid license or reason for carrying those ammunition, he along with the seized items was handed over to Delhi Police for further action,"said an officer.
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