Baggage Thefts Up Sharply At India's Airports

March 16, 2015
Thefts up by almost 70 percent.

New Delhi: The number cases of baggage theft across the airports in the country rose by 67 percent last year with 114 cases being reported during the period as compared to 2013, government said on Monday.

In 2013, 17 airports, including in Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata, had reported 53 cases of baggage theft.

Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, run by private operator GMR group, accounted for nearly 50 per cent (67 in actual terms) of the total number of cases in 2014.

Several measures have been taken to prevent such incidents, adding the measures include frisking of ground-handling staff when they leave the airport, prohibition of use of mobile phones by the them in the airside, deployment of airline security staff in the baggage make-up and break-up area as well as around the cargo-hold area of the airline area among others.  

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