“A mafia is active at Delhi airport”

New Delhi: An Abu Dhabi-based Indian has claimed that jewellery and diamonds worth Rs.2 lakh were stolen from his family’s luggage at Delhi airport when they were on their way to Abu Dhabi this past month.
Parvez Siddiqui has alleged that two necklaces -- one of diamond and the other golden – apart from four sets of ear-rings, two rings and nose-pins were missing from the luggage when his family reached their Abu Dhabi home.
The theft, the family suspects, took place on January 10 when Mr. Siddiqui’s wife Iffat Jahan, his little daughter Lubna, his brother Arshad and their mother Fakhrun Nisa checked in their luggage at Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport here to board an Air India flight to Abu Dhabi.
“.. It seems to me that a mafia is active at Delhi airport,” he alleged.
“I have sent e-mails and faxes to everyone, right from officials in the Union Civil Aviation Ministry in New Delhi to the Airports Authority of India to Delhi International Airport (Private) Limited and Air India. I also wrote to Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel. A senior DIAL official responded to me asking me to take up the matter with Air India General Manager B. Chaturvedi,” he said. In response to his frantic missives, Mr. Siddiqui received an e-mail from Air India Assistant General Manager S. T. Norbula on behalf of Mr. Chaturvedi stating that the airline had not been able to trace the alleged missing items.
10/02/08 Parul Sharma/The Hindu

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Categories: airports Feb 2008