A flyer has lodged a complaint at Sardarnagar police station that jewellery and cash worth Rs10 lakh were stolen from her checked-in baggage.
If you thought that items you carry in your checked-in baggage while flying were safe, then be aware! It may so happen that
the precious articles in it could be found missing when you touch down at your destination.
A recent incident at Ahmedabad airport has raised many an eyebrows, especially among police personnel.
A flyer has lodged a complaint at Sardarnagar police station that jewellery and cash worth Rs10 lakh were stolen from her checked-in baggage.
The passenger, Anju Aradhya who is a resident of Karnataka, was flying from Ahmedabad to New Delhi. She said in the complaint that when she reached Delhi, the diamond jewellery and cash worth Rs10 lakhs were missing from the bag.
The incident came as a big surprise for the police. “If someone can take something out from a screened and sealed bag, then he can also keep something inside it. This is a serious breach of
security at the airport,” a police officer said.
Preliminary police investigation revealed that someone might have identified the jewellery during the screening of the bag and passed on the information to another person handling the luggage from the conveyor belt to the plane’s luggage area.
It is possible that the precious items were taken out from inside the bag during this process.
“It cannot be the work of just one person. There should be a group of people behind it,” said the officer. Police doubt that a gang is involved in the operation and it keeps a tab on the movement of bags carrying precious items from the screening stage to the point where it is loaded into the plane.
Investigators are now trying to identify the people who could be behind the theft.
“We have asked for the footage of the screening of the baggage done by the airport authorities, so that it can be known whether the jewellery was there in the bag or not,” said deputy commissioner of police (zone IV) Amit Vishwakarma.
According to police officials, earlier smaller thefts might have taken place at the city airport but they were not reported as passengers would not come back to Ahmedabad lodge police complaints.
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