Flight missed for papad

Calcutta: A passenger carrying papad was detained for eight hours at Calcutta airport on Tuesday morning after security personnel suspected that he was carrying narcotics. He was later released, but his flight had taken off by then.
Santosh Dube, 30, a resident of Gorakhpur, in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was scheduled to take an Air India Express flight from Calcutta to Bangkok.
The flight was to take off at 7am and Dube, who exports food items to Thailand, had reached the airport two hours early. He was carrying 10 kg of papad, along with other goods in cartons.
After collecting the boarding pass, he proceeded to the security hold area around 6.30am. The testing equipment beeped during the check-up, indicating there were narcotics in the papad. He was immediately detained and his luggage taken off the aircraft.
But CISF personnel and the experts from Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) could not find any narcotics.
“It seems the carton containing the papad was used for storing narcotics earlier. That is why the equipment was giving positive indications,” said an NCB official.
23/01/08 The Telegraph

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