Mumbai: The police are grappling with a mystery involving a disappeared
man and a weapon that he abandoned at the Mumbai international airport.
All trails to search for 78-year-old Vinod Gulati - in India and abroad -
have run cold.
The drama began to unfold on April 12, when a sweeper found a country-made revolver in one of the plastic pots kept outside Gate 7 of the departure section of T2 terminal. The sweeper, while cleaning the pot, noticed a shiny metallic object inside and, on examining it closer, recognized a gun. He then raised an alarm.
After the gun was retrieved, CISF personnel and a dog squad began combing the entire airport but found nothing amiss and no more weapons.
The CISF then scanned CCTV footage from cameras across the entire terminal and zeroed in on images of an elderly man approaching Gate 7 from the road just outside the terminal. The man halted just before the footpath and then crossed back, returning to the other side of the road. He then appears to take out a gun and hide it on his person. He again crosses the road, reaches the footpath outside Gate 7 and pushes the gun into the soil of one of the plastic pots there. Surprisingly, no CISF personnel noticed him do all this. The man then enters the airport through Gate 7 after showing his identification.
Read news in full 28/06/14 Nazia Sayed/Mumbai Mirror
The drama began to unfold on April 12, when a sweeper found a country-made revolver in one of the plastic pots kept outside Gate 7 of the departure section of T2 terminal. The sweeper, while cleaning the pot, noticed a shiny metallic object inside and, on examining it closer, recognized a gun. He then raised an alarm.
After the gun was retrieved, CISF personnel and a dog squad began combing the entire airport but found nothing amiss and no more weapons.
The CISF then scanned CCTV footage from cameras across the entire terminal and zeroed in on images of an elderly man approaching Gate 7 from the road just outside the terminal. The man halted just before the footpath and then crossed back, returning to the other side of the road. He then appears to take out a gun and hide it on his person. He again crosses the road, reaches the footpath outside Gate 7 and pushes the gun into the soil of one of the plastic pots there. Surprisingly, no CISF personnel noticed him do all this. The man then enters the airport through Gate 7 after showing his identification.
Read news in full 28/06/14 Nazia Sayed/Mumbai Mirror
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