"Live cartridges found in Indian airport trash"

Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Live cartridges found in airport dustbin
India - The Hindu


Security agencies were put on high alert at the Indira Gandhi International
Airport here early this morning following recovery of 25 live rounds of 7.65
mm cartridges from a dustbin in the toilet there.

The entire airport was then thoroughly searched, but nothing else was found.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) said it was at about 1.30 a.m.
that during a routine check, constable Indronil Roy of the Quick Reaction
Team deployed in the Transit Lounge found a square object wrapped in black
tape in the dustbin on the Transit West Side of the International Terminal.
He immediately informed Sub-Inspector V.K. Attry. Subsequently the area was
cordoned off and the box was opened, revealing the live rounds of
cartridges.

The security agency said it was of the view that some passenger had come in
with these live rounds and had disposed them of fearing detection.

The rounds have since been handed over to the Indira Gandhi International
Airport police along with a report for further probe.

Meanwhile, the CISF clarified that passengers were not subjected to checking
and frisking at the entry gates of the airport and pre-embarkation checks
were conducted in the Security Hold Area of the Airport alone as per the
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security guidelines.


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