Two held for cleaning out passengers' bags at airport

Mumbai: Two passengers, with valid Jet Airways tickets, entered Mumbai airport on Saturday morning, not to take their flights but to rob fliers' valuables.
In a freak modus operandi unearthed by the security officials at the airport, the duo, posing as passengers, was arrested after they tried to steal things from a passenger's bag, while he was busy collecting his boarding pass from the airline counter. The con men, Shankarlal Chandra and Vilas Sawant, entered the terminal building with e-tickets for Pune and Ahemdabad respectively. "First they went to the GoAir counter, then moved towards the Jetlite ticket counter and eventually to the Jet airways counter. While one of them stood at a distance to keep an eye on the passengers, the other quickly started opening a bag kept on the trolley, while its owner was busy collecting his boarding pass,'' a source said.
Officials said the duo confessed to entering the airport in the past on valid tickets, purchased only to make a bigger buck out of stealing passenger bags. After stealing, they promptly left the terminal saying they had changed their travel plans.
27/09/09 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India

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