Alert airport staffer spots ‘lost’ bag, man gets back Rs 3.36 lakh

New Delhi: Lalit Bhartia, a Bangalore resident, lost and got back his bag containing more than Rs 3 lakh at the Delhi airport within an hour after an alert airport employee spotted the lost luggage. The incident happened at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The passenger had
arrived at the airport from Bangalore in a Kingfisher Airlines flight (IT 204) around 2 pm. On his way out of the airport, Bhartia forgot to take his baggage, which remained at the trolley.
This is when Inderjeet Yadav (27), whose job is to retrieve trolleys left by passengers and put them back in the lot, spotted a polybag in a trolley. The bag was found at the Delhi Transport Corporation counter just outside the airport Terminal 3.
“At first, I couldn’t make out what the bag contained and then thought it could be a bomb,” Yadav said. He immediately informed security personnel at the airport. “They checked it for explosives and found it to be safe. Then they asked me to look inside it.”
28/01/11 Sidhartha Roy/Hindustan Times

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Categories: Airports Jan 2011