IGI intruder roamed inside for four hours

New Delhi: Investigations into the intrusion at IGI Airport on Saturday have revealed some disturbing facts. According to highly-placed sources in Delhi Police, Uday Raj Chauhan (28) — who was found sleeping near an engine of a plane around 4am by Air India officials — had entered the airport around midnight and had spent over four hours inside the technical area before going to sleep.
“The intruder said he was from Rasoolpur village near Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh and had entered the airport to board a plane to Dubai. Uday had earlier claimed that he had entered the airport by riding on top of a truck, but later he said that he had jumped into the airport after climbing a tree next to a boundary wall. He told us that he had consumed liquor on Friday and then decided to go to Dubai for a brighter future,’’ said a senior investigating officer.
The accused claimed that he had roamed about the entire airport for more than three hours before deciding to go to sleep at a “cool” place. He chose a spot in one of the plane’s engine to doze off.
In the second such incident within a span of 18 hours on the same day, a 65-year-old man ‘‘entered’’ the airport after climbing the boundary wall before being caught.
31/03/10 Dwaipayan Ghosh/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Mar 2010, Safety Mar 2010