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Wednesday, Mar 30, 2005

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CISF nabs three for misconduct at airport

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 29. Three authorised employees of different licensed firms operating at Indira Gandhi International Airport here have been caught by the Central Industrial Security Force personnel on various charges of misconduct since Sunday night. The incident has once again highlighted the nuisance posed by such unscrupulous elements who are later let off with paltry fines and return to torment the passengers and visitors to the airport.

In the first incident, that took place around 11-20 p.m. on Sunday, a salesman of the HPMC kiosk, Abhishek Jha, was apprehended by Constable Pravindra Singh at the NITC Arrival Lounge for overcharging a visitor, Dr. Sukhminder Singh, a full 100 per cent for the juice bottles being sold by him. As the visitor lodged a complaint, the accused was nabbed and taken to the Airport Manager who let him off after a meagre fine of Rs 100.

A few hours later, around 3-30 a.m., a loader of M/s Aroon Enterprises, Pradeep Kumar, was held by Head Constable Mahavir Singh at the Main Security Hold Area of the International Terminal for demanding Rs 1,000 from a lady passenger for "adjusting'' her excess luggage when actually there was none. The passenger, Raj Rani, was to board an Indian Airlines flight IC 853 when the loader approached her, handed her an envelope and asked her to pay Rs 1,000 for adjustment of the excess weight of her baggage. However, the passenger complained to Inspector Harvinder Singh who then got the loader caught and handed him over to the IGI police station for registration of a case.

The third case was also reported from the International Terminal. This time at around 5-30 a.m. yesterday, when a driver-cum-loader of M/s Globe Ground India, Ashok Kumar, was apprehended for taking out of the airport premises three ladies' purses and four German battery cells which he had picked up from the baggage belt.

Six deported

Six persons, including a woman, have been arrested by the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport police in three separate cases for allegedly travelling on fake documents.

According to the police, the woman, identified as Ravinder Kaur, wife of Jasbir Singh, a British citizen, was deported from England after her husband allegedly informed the authorities there the "Home Office Stamp" on her visa was fake. In another case, two men, identified as Nishan Singh and Gagan Deep Singh, both natives of Punjab, were deported from Lagos in Nigeria after the authorities there found that they were travelling on forged documents. Three men were arrested when they were deported from Zurich in Switzerland on Monday.

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