Coimbatore: The city police have booked a Salem-based doctor for attempting to send an air pistol to Uttar Pradesh through air cargo.
Suganya, a security agent at Coimbatore International Airport, had found the gun while screening baggage, station security head C K Murugan told police. “The tax invoice of the consignment was issued by Syndicate Innovations International Limited in Ghaziabad. The gun was sold by the company to one Samuel Stephen of Vinayakampatti in Salem and the consignment was booked from Salem through a courier service. The consignment is not supposed to be carry forward by the air cargo and is a violation under the rules of the Aircraft Act, 1934,” he said.