Two baggage created flutter in city airports

Chennai, Aug 16 (UNI) Two unclaimed baggage created flutter among the security personnel at both Anna International Airport and Kamaraj Domestic Airport here today.

Airport sources said, Syed Ali Mohammed of Ramanthapuram came to Anna International Airport to fly to Dubai by an Emirates Airlines flight, EK 545. At check-in counters, airline authorities found that the passenger's baggage weighed more than the allowable weight. They asked the passenger to pay extra baggage charge.

The passenger, instead of paying extra baggage charges, opened one of his baggage and removed some goods, including a transister radio and kept it in a card board box and kept the box in an isolated place, and asked his relative Ali Khader, an undergraduate student of the New College, through mobile phone, to come to the airport and take away the box, and left for Dubai.

Meanwhile, the CISF personnel, who were on the patrol duty, found the unclaimed box and informed the matter to the airport authorities. In the melee, Ali Khader, came to the airport and searched for the box. The CISF personnel handed him over to the airport authorities for further action.

During the interrogation, Ali Khader told that as per the request of his relagtive he came to collect the box. The authorities had verified the bonafides about Ali Khader with the New College authorities as well as the passenger through pilot of the flight and left the student with the baggage after obtained an undertaking, the sources added.

In a similar incident, a card board box containing personal things had created flutter among the security personnel at Kamaraj Domestic airport, which was also seized by the CISF personnel and handed over to the airport manager, the sources added.

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