After a complaint filed by the IndiGo Air, the Delhi police arrested two cleaners who allegedly stole valuable merchandise from a flight that landed at Delhi’s IGI Airport on Tuesday morning.
After a complaint filed by the IndiGo Air, the Delhi police arrested two cleaners who allegedly stole valuable merchandise from a flight that landed at Delhi’s IGI Airport on Tuesday morning.
“IndiGo Flight 6E-728 arrived from Ahmedabad to Delhi at 8 am on Thursday at Bay 2. After immediate disembarkation of the arrival passengers, the cleaners went inside for cleaning purposes. However, the airline security official who was present in the flight noticed their suspicious activities,” said an airport official. “Later during their frisking it was found that the accused, Nihal Kumar, and his cleaner supervisor Rohit Kumar Gupta possessed stolen merchandise hidden in a blue garbage bag,” said the official.
The flight trolley, which should have had the seized merchandise items, was immediately checked by the security staff and its seal was found broken and the items were missing. The missing items were found in the garbage bag in possession of the two accused.
The security staff later handed over both the accused to the Delhi police for further investigation. The police has filed a case against the two cleaners under Sections 379/411/134 IPC.
Earlier, the Delhi police had arrested two ground staff of the IGI Airport for stealing valuables from the baggage of passengers. The two men, who were employed by Air India-SATS, which provides ground services at the airport, were nabbed with the help of CCTV footage.
The video showed the two accused checking the luggage of passengers while unloading. Unaware that their act was being recorded by the CCTV, one of the accused was seen cutting a bag and stealing jewellery from it.
