During baggage scanning, CISF personnel realised there was something amiss about Rao’s bag and pulled it out for physical inspection
BENGALURU: In yet another cash seizure at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), a passenger who was attempting to conceal Rs 10 lakh in his hand luggage was intercepted on Wednesday. The income-tax department has been alerted and probe is on to ascertain source of the money.
Sources at KIA said the incident took place around 12.50pm when a passenger, later identified as Bengaluru-based builder Pitchikala Venkateswara Rao, proceeded for security check to board Air India flight AI 0568 to Hyderabad. During baggage scanning, CISF personnel realised there was something amiss about Rao’s bag and pulled it out for physical inspection. In a check carried out in Rao’s presence, they discovered bundles of Rs 2,000 notes totalling Rs 10 lakh hidden inside.
File photo of Kempegowda International Airport
BENGALURU: A high drama ensued at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) on Tuesday morning when an off-duty customs officer flying to Lucknow refused to open his cabin luggage for security check and amid his altercation with the CISF personnel, his wife, who was in the queue for frisking, suddenly ran to the restroom complaining of dizziness.
It was subsequently found that the officer was carrying Rs 74 lakh unaccounted cash and expensive gadgets and jewellery and his wife had hidden Rs 10 lakh cash and two iPhones in an airport bathroom to evade the authorities.