Foreign Tourist Claims Jewellery, Currency Stolen During X-Ray Check At Delhi Airport

New Delhi:

An FIR has been registered in opposition to unidentified CISF personnel after an Australian lady alleged that her jewelry and foreign currency echange value Rs 50,000 had been stolen from her purse throughout an X-ray verify when she was transferring from the worldwide to the home part at Delhi airport.

Akeshni Singh Gour, 40, flew from Sydney to Delhi on an Air India flight and took a connecting flight of the airline to Hyderabad on August 11 when she met with this untoward incident. She travelled to India to attend her father-in-law’s funeral.

“The whole thing was an act that involved a number of officials who knew what they were doing and they took advantage of my vulnerability of knowing a mother travelling alone with two very little children (aged 3 and 7) who were both exhausted from a 15-hour flight,” reads the FIR, registered on January 4.

Speaking to PTI on telephone from her Sydney dwelling, Ms Gour stated she realised the theft after she reached Hyderabad and the robust suspicion of involvement of safety personnel was because of the truth that all through the entire journey, the one time her backpack containing valuables was out of her sight was when she went by the screening.

“I wrote to every authority, starting from Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia to airport security, Delhi Police, CISF, etc, in the last six months but it was only on December 30 I received an e-mail from SHO IGI Airport to join the investigation,” Ms Gour stated, including she travels to India from time to time and this journey was first in six years.

Responding to a PTI question, the workplace of Apoorv Pandey, Public Relations Officer of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), stated they’re trying into the matter.

The lady stated, “On October 11, 2022, I received an e-mail from Arun Singh, AIG/Airport Security, who asked me to pursue the matter with the local police.” She additionally shared a replica of the letter with PTI.

Mr Singh’s letter additional learn, “Local Police is the right authority for the redressal of your grievance.” Giving particulars of incidents, she stated throughout the X-ray screening she took 5 trays, three for her backpacks, one for her suitcase, and one extra tray for her laptop computer. Together along with her kids, she walked out by the screening course of on the opposite facet.

“All trays but the one with the backpack with my personal belongings came out together. I picked all the stuff and later saw the one tray with the backpack going onto the other side where those bags with questionable items go,” she stated.

“I walked to the other side and the officer asked me for my boarding pass and I said the boarding pass is in that bag itself. He then asked me to take that out which I did as it was sitting right on top,” she added.

It did not elevate any suspicion to her when the officer appeared on the X-ray display and requested her to go. Though she discovered it fairly stunning that he did not even verify the bag.

“If they found some questionable items, why didn’t they check it then? They asked me rather hurry up and go without any inspection,” she stated.

“I am desperate and hoping to have faith in the legal system of India to assist me not for only my benefit but to also ensure that there aren’t any more victims who travel through India and are targeted by these low lives who are supposed to be there in the first place for our safety and security,” the FIR reads. 

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