Kempegowda International Airport blind spot: Techie enters with fake ticket

Bengaluru: A techie used his Photoshop skills to doctor an airline ticket to gain entry into the passenger terminal building of the Kempegowda International Airport, but was caught near the exit gate. He did this in order to help his wife with luggage.

Amit Kumar, who works as a software engineer at an MNC in Bengaluru, on Friday managed to enter the terminal with the fake airline ticket, but was caught by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at the exit gate of the terminal. Police said the techie, who hails from Kolkata entered the terminal at 6.40 am by showing the doctored ticket. It is learnt that the ticket was of Amit's previous journey to Kolkata from Bengaluru and he had edited the date and time on the ticket.

Amit told the CISF officials that all he wanted to do was to help his wife by carrying her luggage as she was finding it difficult with a four-month-old baby in hand and had no ulterior motive. His wife was traveling to Kolkata.

Later, CISF officials registered a case in Bengaluru International Airport police station. The police booked him under IPC 420, 465 and 471 and sent him to judicial custody.

The incident, however, has raised security concerns among the authorities as the man nimbly managed to deceive the security staff and gained access to the terminal with a doctored ticket.