In the unprecedented violence at the Karipur airport, a CISF jawan was killed and three others were injured when a service revolver went off during a clash between CISF personnel and fire officers of AAI.
Eight fire and safety officials of the Airports Authority of India were arrested today in connection with the June 10 violent incidents which claimed the life of a CISF jawan at Karipur airport near here.
Police said they were arrested this afternoon under various IPC sections, including 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).
The airport was temporarily shut down after the clash between CISF and fire department officials of AAI following an argument over frisking of some personnel around 9.40 pm on June 10.
"In the ensuing scuffle, a firearm belonging to a CISF personnel went off killing a CISF head-constable while the official who was holding the firearm sustained burn injuries on hand and he is hospitalised. The scuffle continued for some time," an official release had said.
As per the visuals aired by television channels on Friday morning, a CISF jawan was surrounded and beaten up by a group of AAI officials following an altercation between him and an airport official over frisking.
After resisting the attackers for a few seconds, the jawan is seen fleeing the area with the irate AAI staff giving chase. Within seconds, the AAI staff are seen running away from the area and rushing inside the airport building, having apparently witnessed something to scare them away -- perhaps the gunshot that claimed the life of a CRPF jawan. However, what drive the AAI staffers back is not seen in the clipping.
CCTV visuals aired on Thursday had showed a group of CISF personnel, apparently agitated over the death of their colleague, jawan Jaipal Yadav, destroying airport property.
In the unprecedented violence at the Karipur airport, a CISF jawan was killed and three others were injured when a service revolver went off during a clash between CISF personnel and fire officers of AAI.
Karipur airport, which was closed for over six hours after the violence broke out, became operational yesterday morning after normalcy was restored.
On , Forensic officials went to the airport to probe the shooting incident in which CISF jawan Jaipal Yadav was killed. The airport was closed for at least six hours and flight operations resumed only on July 11.
Meanwhile, ADGP (North Zone) N Shankar Reddy submitted a preliminary report on the violence to Director General of Police. "A preliminary report on what exactly happened was furnished to DGP," Reddy told PTI. "Everything is on CCTV," Reddy said when asked who was responsible for the violence and gun shot that followed.
"The incident is involving two Central government organisations. We will go by evidence and will follow up with legal procedures," Reddy added.
Meanwhile, AAI Employees Union today demanded an impartial probe into the violent incidents at the Karipur airport.
Union General Secretary Balram Singh told reporters at Kozhikode that AAI employees taken into custody by police were "innocent".
Alleging that police was trying to falsely implicate the Fire and Rescue service personnel in the case, he said they were hesitating to take action against CISF jawans who had gone on the rampage soon after the death of their colleague.e, fresh footage of the episode has appeared in which a group of alleged Airports Authority of India officials in plainclothes are seen attacking a CISF jawan.
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