The police have seized two drone cameras and one iPad is seized from them. "After all legal formalities accused and seized property was handed over to Charkop police station for further necessary action," said additional commissioner of police, crime, KMM Prasanna.
City crime branch sleuths have arrested three persons for allegedly flying drones in Charkop area. The police have recovered two drones and a laptop in the city.
Those arrested have been identified as Rahul Rajkumar Jaiswal, 24, Rana Subhash Singh aged 25, and Vidhichand Shivnathprasad Jaiswal, 45. According to the police , on Wednesday a case was registered at Charkop Police Station regarding drone camera flying incident at Charkop area. "It is revealed during investigation that Rahul and Rana were doing trial film shooting with drone camera before actual scheduled shooting as per instructions given by Vidhichand, owner of drone camera who runs a business of renting drone cameras for film shooting," said a crime branch officer.
The police have seized two drone cameras and one iPad is seized from them. "After all legal formalities accused and seized property was handed over to Charkop police station for further necessary action," said additional commissioner of police, crime, KMM Prasanna.
Those arrested have been booked under sections 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 336 (Act endangering life or personal safety of others) and 287 (Negligent conduct with respect to machinery) of the Indian Penal Code. "There is prohibition on using drone by private persons in Mumbai except the police," said another police officer. Recently, CISF officials had informed Airport Police that pilot of Delhi Mumbai Indigo Flight had seen a drone 100 feet below the flight at Kurla side during landing.
Pilot Ashish Ranjan had told the authorities that he saw a drone blue and pink colour at 3.5 km east side.
Previous similar instances :
1) In May 2014, Lower Parel-based Francesco's Pizzeria, conducted a test-flight of the unmanned drone and test-delivered a pizza to a customer located 1.5 kilometres away from the outlet. The delivery was successful, but the police were totally unaware of it and expressed serious concerns regarding the aerial delivery. A four-rotor drone took off with the order from its outlet in central Mumbai's Lower Parel area and delivered it to a terrace of a private high-rise residential building in adjacent Worli area said an outlet official, claiming that it is for the first time that the ubiquitous drone has been used for such a purpose in the country
2) In July 2015 the Trombay police had detained an employee of a property website for illegally using a drone to photograph the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). Three people were seen using a remote-controlled drone flying at a height of around 55 feet. The drone flew for nearly 25 minutes over the BARC campus at Trombay. A professor who happened to see the drone videographed the incident on his mobile phone and submitted it to the police.
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