Rs 1.4 cr gold stolen from air cargo

Mumbai: The airport police have registered a case against unidentified people for theft of gold bars worth Rs 1.44 crore from the air cargo. The theft was reported by a jewellery courier agency when a parcel due to arrive by an Air India flight from Hyderabad went missing on December 22.
Sanjay Jain, who runs the courier agency, was expecting a parcel of gold bars from Air India flight AI 527 at 12.45 pm. But when the flight landed in Mumbai, Jain was told that his parcel was not there. He then complained to the airport police about the disappearance of the valuable parcel.
Assistant commissioner of police (ACP) of the zone, C K Chavan, told TOI that the airline system did not show the parcel among valuables on the flight. However, the duty manager of the airline in Hyderabad had informed the airline staff in Mumbai over phone.
29/12/11 Times of India

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