Airport camera catches mobile theft

Calcutta: Airport close-circuit television today caught a well-to-do passenger in snazzy dress stealing another’s cellphone, barely two months after an airline employee was filmed in a similar act.
In his black jeans and black T-shirt, a gold chain dangling from the neck and sunglasses raised over his forehead, the import-export businessman from Rajasthan looked an unlikely mobile thief.
But Ashok Agarwal, who is in his 40s, broke down when confronted with the footage, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officers said.
The garment merchant was arrested on the charge of pocketing the handset of Calcutta businessman Mohammed Hussain, who had forgotten it on the security check-in tray.
Hussain, flying to Mumbai on Jet Airways, had placed his white cellphone on the tray for an X-ray scan but forgotten to pick it up after he was frisked. He remembered it after 15 minutes and rushed back from the departure lounge. But the gadget was missing.
The CISF immediately ran the CCTV footage and launched a search for Agarwal.
Agarwal was waiting to board a SpiceJet flight to Bangalore when the CISF accosted him.
03/05/08 The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports May 2008