New Delhi: Reports of transportation of unauthorised arms, contraband and large sums of money to the five poll-bound states on chartered aircraft, helicopters and through passengers of commercial airlines have prompted Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to modify standard operating procedures (SOPs) and issue fresh guidelines to ensure a "level playing field during the election process".
Barring exempted VVIPs, "all passengers and baggage boarding any aircraft or helicopter, commercial or chartered, will pass through the pre-embarkation security checks area of operational airports of states going to polls", says a circular issued by R N Dhoke, Additional Commissioner, BCAS, on July 3.
Chartered aircraft or helicopters, however, will not require prior permission from district election officers to land at or take off from commercial airports.
Read news in full 17/09/13 Geeta Gupta/Indian Express
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