New York: A New York police officer arrested at Delhi airport last month for carrying three live bullets in his luggage is out on bail, authorities in India said Saturday, as officials dismissed US media reports describing it as India's revenge over the Khobragade affair.
US police officer Manny Encarnacion was arrested on March 11 after three 9 mm bullets were found in the pocket of a jacket in his checked luggage at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), a senior airport official told IANS.
Encarnacion, a Harlem police officer from the New York Police Department (NYPD), had alighted from a New York flight at 1.30 a.m. March 11 and was headed to Pune to meet his newly-wedded wife on an Air India flight, scheduled for 11 a.m. It was when his luggage was passing the X-Ray machine to be loaded on the Air India flight that airport authorities noticed the three live bullets..
Officials wondered how Encarnacion went past US immigration with the live bullets in his luggage. "How did he manage to go past US airport scanners with the live bullets in his luggage," a senior official asked. Encarnacion was presented before a Delhi court on March 11, which granted him bail the same day.
05/04/14 IANS/New Indian Express
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US police officer Manny Encarnacion was arrested on March 11 after three 9 mm bullets were found in the pocket of a jacket in his checked luggage at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), a senior airport official told IANS.
Encarnacion, a Harlem police officer from the New York Police Department (NYPD), had alighted from a New York flight at 1.30 a.m. March 11 and was headed to Pune to meet his newly-wedded wife on an Air India flight, scheduled for 11 a.m. It was when his luggage was passing the X-Ray machine to be loaded on the Air India flight that airport authorities noticed the three live bullets..
Officials wondered how Encarnacion went past US immigration with the live bullets in his luggage. "How did he manage to go past US airport scanners with the live bullets in his luggage," a senior official asked. Encarnacion was presented before a Delhi court on March 11, which granted him bail the same day.
05/04/14 IANS/New Indian Express
