350 Baggage Theft Cases Reported At Indian Airports Since 2010

May 1, 2013
Here is the text of news released by official news agency Bernama on its website: About 350 cases of baggage theft have been reported at domestic and international airports in the country since 2010, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

Here is the text of news released by official news agency Bernama on its website: About 350 cases of baggage theft have been reported at domestic and international airports in the country since 2010, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

Minister of State for Civil Aviation K C Venugopal said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Indian parliament) on Thursday that incidents of baggage theft were reported at 19 airports in the country.

According to him, 105 cases were reported in 2010 with 35 at Mumbai airport, Delhi (26), Hyderabad (14), Kolkata (seven), Cochin (six), Jaipur (five), Chennai and Calicut (three each), Coimbatore and Bagdogra (two each) and one at Raipur airport.

In 2011, out of 126 cases reported, Kolkata airport recorded the highest number at 32 followed by Delhi (31), Mumbai (28), Cochin (nine), Hyderabad (eight), Calicut (seven), Jaipur (four), Chennai and Port Blair (two each), and one each at Aizwal, Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram airports.

However, theft cases went down to 86 in the country last year.

A total of 24 cases were reported at Delhi airport, 22 from Mumbai, Cochin (11), Hyderabad (nine), Jaipur and Kolkata (six each), Thiruvananthapuram (three), Agartala and Raipur (two each) and Indore (one).

Thirty-two baggage theft cases have been reported up to March this year, with 11 from Delhi airport, Mumbai (nine), Cochin (five), Hyderabad (two) and one each from Bhuj, Kolkata and Madurai.

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