Alert security personnel apprehended a Mumbai-bound woman passenger at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport for carrying five live bullet rounds in her baggage. Recovery of live bullets was reported to police and accordingly an FIR was registered.
According to an airport official, an officer of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), posted at the IGI Airport, detected bullet-like objects on the X-ray monitor on Thursday while checking the bag of the woman passenger identified as Anshu R.
“Five live bullet rounds were found on the passenger travelling to Mumbai,” the official said.The woman was not allowed to board the flight and was handed over to the police as she could not produce any document for the ammunition, the official said, adding that she was later booked under sections of the Arms Act.
In another incident an African national was apprehended at the IGI airport for allegedly trying to smuggle foreign currency $34,500 by hiding them in his socks, officials said on Friday. T N Mwaisemba, a Malawian national, was detected with the huge foreign currency during frisking by the CISF personnel while he was on his way to take a flight to Dubai, the officials said.
A total of $34,500, which is over Rs 23.24 lakh, was found concealed in the socks that the man was wearing, they said.