US national detained after 4'' blade found in hand baggage

New Delhi: Indian authorities have detained US national Winston Carmichael of African-American descent at the IGI airport as he found to be carrying a four inch blade embedded in aphrodisiac "Himalayan Shilajit" resin in his cabin luggage on Wednesday morning while boarding a flight to Doha, Qatar en-route to New York. Subsequent inquiries with the NYPD have revealed that Carmicheal, a convert to Islam, has earlier being charged with dug related offences and some petty crimes in the States and some discrepancies in his Indian visa application but no terror connection has been unearthed.
Government sources said that the CISF at IGIA detained Carmicheal as he could not provide satisfactory answers to queries on why he was carrying the blade.
11/02/10 Shishir Gupta/Indian Express

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