Army officers came to recevie Captain's body turned away by CISF at IGI

New Delhi: A group of army officers in uniform were turned away by the CISF at the Delhi airport when they arrived to receive the body of one of their personnel killed in a gun battle with terrorists in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir.
Citing security issues, the CISF did not allow a major general, a brigadier on wheelchair and six colonels to proceed when they came to receive the body of Captain Devender Singh Jass. Captain Jass of the elite 1 Para Special Forces was one of the personnel killed in the Sopore gunbattle.
The officers were heard pleading with the assistant commandant in charge of security, saying: "All of us are in uniform and you can see our two identity cards - of the army and defence ministry. We request you to let us in even after frisking."
But the CISF personnel refused. The wheelchair-bound brigadier then pointed to his Kirti Chakra, India's second-highest gallantry award, and requested the CISF personnel to let them inside. But even that didn't work.
Civil aviation ministry officials were approached but they too refused to help. After over an hour, the officers handed the flowers they had brought to the relatives of Captain Jass and left.
25/02/10 Sandeep Unnithan/India Today

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Categories: Airports Feb 2010