MUMBAI: The Sahar police arrested nine airport loaders on Thursday in two separate cases of theft. In a case reported on February 15, the chairman-cum-managing director of a travel agency lost Rs 2 lakh while on his way from Mumbai to Kochi.
The passenger, who had taken an Air India (AI) Mumbai-Kochi flight from the international terminal, was carrying the cash in his check-in baggage. After landing in Kochi, he found that the cash was missing from his bag. An investigation revealed that two loaders from the same airline had stolen the money.
"We interrogated all the people on a shift during the time of the flight and arrested two loaders. Later, they confessed they had stolen the money just after the bag was removed from the conveyor belt," said senior police inspector Dilip Patil. "We have recovered the entire amount," he added.
There was no CCTV coverage in the make-up area (from where check-in baggage is carted from the conveyer belt to the aircraft), which made it easy for the accused to steal the money.
"We do use the CCTV footage in cases reported from the terminal area," said a senior police official. The two accused, Jagdish Salunke (38) and Ganesh Khedekar (38) have been remanded to police custody and booked for theft.
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