Calcutta: A Dell mobile phone, a Blu-ray player, an iPad keyboard, case and stylus and a toiletry kit went missing from the check-in baggage of a passenger who arrived in the city by a Lufthansa flight from Boston on January 26.
Dipanjan Purkayastha, the vice-president of an MNC, discovered the theft only after reaching home because the locks were intact when he collected the luggage from the conveyor belt.
Purkayastha, who flew to the city via Frankfurt, immediately mailed his complaint to the airline, only to receive a standard reply that “did not reflect any enthusiasm on the part of the airline in tracing the lost items”.
Metro has earlier reported several cases of baggage theft and damage at Calcutta airport.
Both the suitcases — one black and the other brown — Purkayastha had checked in had been locked and neither showed any sign of tampering. It was only after he opened the suitcases on reaching home that he realised that some items were missing.
While unpacking, Purkayastha noticed a box of video game cartridges shoved inside a zipper flap. “I remembered having kept the box inside the suitcase. The person who rummaged through the bag must have thought the cartridges wouldn’t be of much help and shoved them into the pouch. The zipper was broken.”
Most of the missing items were gifts Purkayastha had bought for his family and so were brand new. A toiletry kit that went missing along with the rest of the items contained a Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power razor ($11) and Matrix Biolage hair serum ($20) among other things.
01/02/12 The Telegraph
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