Airport staffer caught pilfering bags

Chennai: An airport worker was detained for stealing a laptop and a digital camera from the checked-in baggage of a passenger on Thursday morning.
After Surendra R, who arrived from Colombo by a Jet Airways flight, lodged a complaint stating that his bag with a laptop was missing CCTV footage helped the airport manager and the police zero in on the culprit.
The police said conveyor belt operator Ashok Kumar, a native of Senji who was engaged by a private contractor, removed the laptop and the camera and hid them near the conveyor belt. Two liquor bottles, a mobile phone and an umbrella were also seized from him.
Investigations are on to find out whether more people were involved in the case since airlines and airport officials had reported that they had got many such complaints of similar thefts in recent months.
Questioning revealed that Ashok Kumar had stolen perfumes, mobile phones and laptops earlier.
28/01/11 Times of India

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