New Delhi: Around 350 cases of baggage theft were reported from international and domestic airports in the country since 2010, government said on Thursday.
Minister of State for Civil Aviation K C Venugopal, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, said the incidents of baggage theft were reported from 19 airports in the country.
In 2010, there were 105 such cases of which, maximum 35 was from Mumbai airport, followed by Delhi with 26, Hyderabad 14, Kolkata seven, six Cochin, five Jaipur, three each from Chennai and Calicut, two each from Coimbatore and Bagdogra and one from Raipur.
In 2011, of the 126 such cases, Kolkata had maximum with 32, followed by Delhi with 31, Mumbai 28, Cochin nine, Hyderabad eight, Calicut seven, Jaipur four, two each in Chennai and Port Blair and one each at Aizwal, Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram.
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