The Indira Gandhi International airport has done away with the body scanner machine installed at Terminal 3 due to its poor performance.
But with no replacement at hand, security officials are back to manual scanning of passengers through metal detectors, which is not foolproof.
'We had installed a body scanner machine (Pro Vision 2) to detect concealed objects made of metallic and non-metallic materials. During the trial period, the machine did not give the desired result,' said an official of the Airports Authority of India.
'It has multiple technical loopholes and hence, we decided to remove it following recommendations from CISF,' the official added.
Multiple security agencies deployed at IGI observed that smuggling of gold, silver and contrabands have been on the rise since last year with passengers concealing them inside their bodies.
On November 15, 2016, two drug traffickers from Afganistan were arrested from T3 after the health of one of them named Gulam Rabani deteriorated.
31/01/17 Ajay Kumar/Daily Mail
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But with no replacement at hand, security officials are back to manual scanning of passengers through metal detectors, which is not foolproof.
'We had installed a body scanner machine (Pro Vision 2) to detect concealed objects made of metallic and non-metallic materials. During the trial period, the machine did not give the desired result,' said an official of the Airports Authority of India.
'It has multiple technical loopholes and hence, we decided to remove it following recommendations from CISF,' the official added.
Multiple security agencies deployed at IGI observed that smuggling of gold, silver and contrabands have been on the rise since last year with passengers concealing them inside their bodies.
On November 15, 2016, two drug traffickers from Afganistan were arrested from T3 after the health of one of them named Gulam Rabani deteriorated.
31/01/17 Ajay Kumar/Daily Mail
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