A bag with Rs 1.15 lakh in cash, left behind by a commuter caused a bomb scare at an airport link metro station on Wednesday.
Officials said the incident was reported from the IGI Airport station at about 2:45 pm when a CISF official spotted the unattended bag at the X-ray baggage scanner. He immediately informed his superiors and a bomb detection and disposal team was called in.
However, nothing suspicious was found in the bag and `1.15 lakh, a laptop and a cheque book were recovered from it and the bomb alert was called off after few minutes.
CISF officials later went through the CCTV footage and saw a man placing the bag for scanning but not picking it up later. “After sometime, a Patna-based commuter came back to claim the bag. He said he had forgotten it on the X-ray machine as he was in a hurry. The bag was handed over to him after checking the bona fides,” officials said.