New Delhi: Barcode scanners will stand in the way of trespassers at Delhi airport's entry gates from next week following security scares over frequent incidents of people sneaking in with bogus e-tickets.
Authorities are introducing the pilot project close on the heels of intelligence warnings that in the absence of a biometric system the country's most sensitive airport was under serious threat.
According to the Central Industrial Security Force, responsible for guarding all commercial airports in India, 23 people managed to enter the facility with fake digital tickets in 2015 while the same number of incidents has been recorded in the first eight months this year.
An Italian national managed to slip into the airport using a forged e-ticket to see his girlfriend off on the eve of Independence Day when the area was on high alert. The man had a ticket to Moscow for August 16 but changed the date to the 15th using a photo-editing software in a bid to gain entry. He was later caught in the check-in area.
The barcode readers will allow airlines and CISF to track the movements of terminal building. The step was taken after the security force wrote to the ministry of civil aviation regarding concerns raised by misuse of e-tickets.
17/09/16 Ankur Sharma/Sidharth Tiwari
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Authorities are introducing the pilot project close on the heels of intelligence warnings that in the absence of a biometric system the country's most sensitive airport was under serious threat.
According to the Central Industrial Security Force, responsible for guarding all commercial airports in India, 23 people managed to enter the facility with fake digital tickets in 2015 while the same number of incidents has been recorded in the first eight months this year.
An Italian national managed to slip into the airport using a forged e-ticket to see his girlfriend off on the eve of Independence Day when the area was on high alert. The man had a ticket to Moscow for August 16 but changed the date to the 15th using a photo-editing software in a bid to gain entry. He was later caught in the check-in area.
The barcode readers will allow airlines and CISF to track the movements of terminal building. The step was taken after the security force wrote to the ministry of civil aviation regarding concerns raised by misuse of e-tickets.
17/09/16 Ankur Sharma/Sidharth Tiwari
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