CCTV footage helps city cops crack whodunit

Chennai: On December 4 T Nagar resident WR Vasudevan (47) took the 9.30am Kingfisher Airlines flight to Mumbai. On reaching his destination, Vasudevan realized that the diamond jewellery, worth Rs 14 lakh, which he had kept in his hand baggage, was missing.
He tried to lodge a complaint with the Mumbai airport police, who directed him to register the complaint at Chennai since the flight originated from the city.
V Varadharaju, deputy commissioner of police (St Thomas Mount), said a police team monitored video footage recorded by CCTV cameras at Chennai airport on December 4 between 5am and 10am. The CCTV footage showed that a three-member gang had targeted Vasudevan while he was waiting at the Kingfisher Airlines counter to collect his boarding pass around 8am.
The trio had entered the airport at 5am and had randomly targeted Vasudevan. While two persons covered the hand baggage of the passenger, the third removed a bag containing the jewellery. The gang took the Jet Airways flight to Mumbai at 10am.
A police team spent a week in Mumbai following up clues.
Thanks to help from Mumbai police, the team narrowed in on the accused at Andheri in Mumbai, from where Ushakanth Janardhan and Dwarakesh Gowda were arrested on Wednesday. They were brought to the city on Thursday, and remanded in police custody till February 8. A search is on for the third gang member, Joginder Singh.
05/02/10 Daniel P George/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Feb 2010