Camera catches airport cell thief

Calcutta: An airline employee was today caught on closed-circuit television stealing a passenger’s cellphone at Calcutta airport’s security check-in counter.
Dhiraj Gurung, 24, security supervisor with MDLR Airlines, was detained by the Central Industrial Security Force.
M.R. Sharma, a passenger of Jet Airways’ 12.45pm Calcutta-Agartala flight, had checked in at the security counter around noon. He placed his mobile on the tray for X-ray scanning before he was frisked.
“Sharma then forgot to collect the phone. But a short while later, just as departure was announced, he remembered the phone and rushed back to the counter,” a CISF official said.
Failing to find the mobile, Sharma informed the CISF. Since his flight was about to take off, he boarded the plane without the phone.
The CISF official said Gurung had seen Sharma head for the departure lounge without his phone after the frisking. He immediately walked up to the X-ray counter, picked the phone up and put it inside his right trouser pocket.
But he did not realise that the CCTV installed over the X-ray machine had recorded his act.
19/03/08 The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Mar 2008, MDLR Mar 2008