CHENNAI: The airport police are now investigating three persons who entered Chennai airport’s international terminal allegedly without valid tickets on Tuesday. According to officials, M. Krishna (42), a businessman and a resident of Moulivakkam, entered the airport on Tuesday night by showing a cancelled ticket. He wanted to see off his wife and daughter flying to Dubai.
He was detained when he tried to leave through the entrance to the departure after AI officials found no booking had been made in his name. The man also gave contradictory information, claiming that he had booked a ticket to fly to Dubai along with his family one week ago, but unfortunately, he had to attend a meeting in the city and cancelled his ticket two days ago.
Further investigation revealed that he wanted to send off his wife and daughter and he had allegedly scanned the cancelled ticket to enter the terminal. His wife who had boarded the flight by then told officials over the phone that he had no plans to fly along with them. Finally, airline officials handed him over to security authorities to probe for 'breach of security and fraud'. He was later handed over to the airport police.
Engg students held: Similarly, S. Vivaan Mhagi, 22, a third-year engineering student in the city originally from Odisha, presented an old ticket to fool CISF personnel and entered the departure lounge to send off her friend. According to reports, her friend had a ticket to travel from Chennai to Patna and she made a fake ticket of an Indigo flight. After her friend made it through the security check, she moved to the departure lounge and requested the CISF personnel that she no longer wanted to fly to Patna and wished to leave.
They found that the customer ID printed on her ticket was false. During interrogation, she admitted that she had manipulated an old ticket to send her friend off. In another case, Wasik Gupta (22), of Madhya Pradesh, who was pursuing final year engineering in the city, was also caught red-handed while leaving the departure terminal. He was handed over to the airport police on Wednesday morning. Further investigations are on.
