Actress says she lost her bag, airline officials deny claim

Mumbai: In yet another case of baggage loss during transit, a Jetlite passenger travelling from Delhi to Mumbai lodged a complaint with the airport police about losing her bag that contained valuables.
The passenger, Shraddha Sharma, who is a Bhojpuri actor, was travelling to Mumbai from Delhi by a Jetlite flight. She alleged that after reaching Mumbai, she found her suitcase open, with a bag containing approximately Rs 1 lakh in cash, a camera and a mobile, missing. According to police, she had stuffed her handbag inside a suitcase before her luggage was checked in and had locked it using a tiny lock.
"After reaching Mumbai, she discovered that the lock from her suitcase had vanished and the bag had gone missing,'' said a police official. "She had asked an airline official at Delhi airport if it was safe to keep a bag containing valuables in the luggage to be checked in. The actor claimed it was on his directive that she put her bag in the suitcase,'' he added.
Though Sharma claims she only did what she was instructed to do, airline officials point out that she had ignored the warning given about luggage safety.
Jetlite officials denied Sharma's claims. "Her suitcase weighed the same when she had checked it in at Delhi and after it reached Mumbai,'' said a Jet Airways official. "When asked, she couldn't even specify the denomination of the currency, nor could she tell us the make of the camera and the phone,'' she added.
23/11/08 Times of India

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