Bid to board plane with ammo lands man in cop net

Bhubaneswar: A 48-year-old man was detained last night for allegedly trying to board a plane with ammunition.
The airport authorities nabbed Rajiv Dutt Mishra around 8.45pm yesterday and handed him over to Airfield police, who were interrogating him since then.
Mishra, who claimed to be associated with a Delhi-based firm, was detained after his suitcase was placed under the security scanner. The machine indicated that “some objectionable objects” were in the suitcase, following which the ammunition was seized from his possession.
Three 0.32mm cartridges and other accessories were seized from his baggage and sent for forensic tests. “We want to confirm if they are live cartridges,” said Utkal Das, the inspector in-charge of Airfield police station.
The detained person said he had arrived in Keonjhar from Raipur by road on Saturday to seal a deal with some clients and had to board a flight to Delhi from Bhubaneswar last night.
As Mishra left Keonjhar, his nephew, Rajesh Goel, reportedly called him up and asked him to take a packet with him.
Goel is the director of Delhi-based Alliance Metals Pvt. Ltd, where Mishra works as an adviser.
“I picked it up and put it inside my suitcase without checking what was inside,” claimed Mishra.
16/08/07 The Telegraph

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Categories: Safety Aug 2007