Guess who dropped in at the airport?

Mangalore: Little Master Sachin Tendulkar creates ripples wherever he goes. The last 24 hours was no different from the time Sachin landed in this port city enroute Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada to attend the marriage of a close acquaintance to the time he left on Sunday morning. There was absolute chaos at the airport with the media doing everything possible to ferret out information on the batsman's itinerary, which was kept under wraps.
The secrecy behind Sachin's visit was such that even the authorities concerned chose to downplay his presence in their area, lest knowledge of it causes undue problems for this master blaster. SP A S Rao said Sachin, who has `Y' category security classification was provided with an armed personal security officer. Jurisdictional police provided proximity security to see that he was not hassled in places that he visited, the SP added. Given Sachin's inclination to turn to the famous pilgrimage centre at Sri Kshetra Kukke Subrahmanya for his personal problems, mediapersons made a beeline for the place, some 110-km from here in the hope that he would land up there on Nagarapanchami day.
Sachin, with close members of his family had performed `sarpa samskara' at the Sri Kshetra three years ago on advise from family priests.
26/07/09 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jul 2009