Disappearance of laptops, cellphones haunts Kolkata airport

Kolkata: When you board a flight from Kolkata, zealously guard your laptops and cellphones during the security check at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose international airport before entering the plane.
There have been several cases of expensive electronic gadgets vanishing from the conveyer belt of the X-ray machine or from the plastic tray during the X-ray scan. But Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel and airport officials are yet to crack the mysterious thefts.
Last week, yet another mobile phone went missing after it was placed in the tray for an X-ray scan. It belonged to Darshan Sheth, a passenger travelling from Kolkata to Guwahati by an Indian flight. After he raised a hue and cry, CISF showed him the feed from a closed-circuit camera placed near the security-check counter.
“The camera was positioned in such a way that the all-important view was obstructed by a pillar”, said Sheth.
Recently, another passenger lost his laptop. And many cellphones have been lost in the airport X-ray zone.
Passenger Judhajit Majumder, an IT professional, was all set to board a Bangalore-bound Air Sahara flight when he lost his laptop and mobile phones.
29/05/07 Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates

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Categories: Airports May 2007