A three-member team visited Bangalore on Sunday to view the CCTV recordings at the airport, to ascertain details of passengers who flew in the flight and ground-handling staff, including cargo loaders.
A high-level committee headed by a deputy commissioner of police, Jolly Cherian, will probe the low-intensity country-made bomb found in Kingfisher flight IT-4731 that landed at the Trivandrum International Airport from Bangalore on Sunday morning.
The Government of Kerala ordered security agencies to conduct a thorough probe into the lapses at the airport.
“It is a serious security lapse. We have directed the security agencies to look into this,” Kerala’s law minister M Vijayakumar said.
The “country-made bomb like object” of the size of a cricket ball containing 30gm of gunpowder was found wrapped in two layers of paper: a page from the Thiruvananthapuram edition of a Malayalam newspaper and an SSLC model examination question paper.
Taking serious note of the issue, a three-member team led by Thiruvananthapuram city police commissioner MR Ajith Kumar visited Bangalore on Sunday to view the close circuit television camera recordings at the airport to ascertain details of the passengers who flew in the flight and ground-handling staff, including cargo loaders. The team returned on Monday.
Meanwhile, security agencies have taken serious note of the inadequate security at baggage check points in almost all airports in the country. “We have found that the x-ray machines are kept at a distance from the baggage loading and check-in counter. Anyone who completes the security check had to drag his baggage towards the check-in point which is at a distance and on the way he can insert anything inside his baggage. The system of identifying the luggage before loading it by individual passengers is also discontinued now,” an official said.
He said that they would take up the issue with the authorities concerned.
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