Kolkata: Angered by the multi-level checking going on at the Kolkata airport, owing to red alert issued ahead of Republic Day, a 28-year-old youth threw his bag at a security officer on Sunday, saying “the bag contained bomb”.
Pradipta Bandopadhyay was about to board a flight to Bangalore, where he works at a private firm, around 5.30pm on Sunday, when he was stopped by a security officer of SpiceJet before entering the aircraft SG658. The officer told him to open his hand bag and asked him if there was any hazardous or dangerous bag. “The passenger had already undergone multiple screening. At being told to open his bag yet again, he possibly lost his cool and threw his bag at the officer, saying it contained a bomb. The officer isolated him, prevented him from boarding the flight and called the CISF officers,” said a senior airport official.
A SpiceJet spokesperson said when the flyer told the staff member that his hand bag had a bomb in it, the security staff alerted the CISF and local police and handed him over to them. Officers at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International police station arrested him under sections of IPC and Safety of Civil Aviation Act for spreading panic. He was later released on bail. “No restricted item was found in his luggage. But going by the protocol, we had to seize the luggage and detain the man before handing him over to police,” an airport official said.
21/01/20 Tamaghna Banerjee/Times of India
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Pradipta Bandopadhyay was about to board a flight to Bangalore, where he works at a private firm, around 5.30pm on Sunday, when he was stopped by a security officer of SpiceJet before entering the aircraft SG658. The officer told him to open his hand bag and asked him if there was any hazardous or dangerous bag. “The passenger had already undergone multiple screening. At being told to open his bag yet again, he possibly lost his cool and threw his bag at the officer, saying it contained a bomb. The officer isolated him, prevented him from boarding the flight and called the CISF officers,” said a senior airport official.
A SpiceJet spokesperson said when the flyer told the staff member that his hand bag had a bomb in it, the security staff alerted the CISF and local police and handed him over to them. Officers at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International police station arrested him under sections of IPC and Safety of Civil Aviation Act for spreading panic. He was later released on bail. “No restricted item was found in his luggage. But going by the protocol, we had to seize the luggage and detain the man before handing him over to police,” an airport official said.
21/01/20 Tamaghna Banerjee/Times of India
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