New Delhi: Keep valuables in hand baggage is a suggestion offered by all airline operators to flyers. Implicit in it is the real risk their check-in baggage is subject to as may be vouched for by several who ignored it at their own peril.
Five months into 2014, 58 thefts at Indira Gandhi International Airport have already been registered with police. Last year, the number of such cases was 68, and two years ago it was 52, suggesting a rising trend. Most of these thefts have taken place inside the domestic and international terminals, say police.
On Friday, a member of the cleaning staff belonging to a private agency was nabbed stealing a laptop from the luggage of a passenger onboard an international airline. A fortnight ago, a staffer of a ground handling agency was arrested for stealing an iPhone from a piece of registered baggage that was on its way to a flight.
Read news in full 25/05/14 Suhas Munshi/Times of India
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