The Asian Age

Gold worth ` 335cr seized

Personnel also seized 5 firearms, 44cr unattended property ` ◗

- SHASHI BHUSHAN and SUNIL THAPLIYAL THE ASIAN AGE

The CISF seized gold worth ` 335 crore, silver ` 2.07 crore at various airports in the year gone by. They also recovered unattended property worth ` 44.66 crore.

The paramilita­ry force also recovered five arms and 222 ammunition last year. While a total of 126 touts were apprehende­d, among them three were given to the airport operator, while the rest were handed over to the local police.

While the CISF seized over ` 15 crore in cash, a total of 96 cases of fake tickets were reported in the airports and seven cases of contraband items were detected:

The paramilita­ry force also recovered 4,758 items such as laptops, cameras, mobiles, wrist watches, unattended items, wallets, currency, jewellery, passports, PAN cards, other ID, jackets bags worth over ` 4 crores and returned them to their respective owners after verificati­on.

At present, the Central Industrial Security Force ( CISF) personnel have been deployed at 59 airports across the country. Apart from protecting Delhi Metro and Metro premises, the perfonnel have taken many proactive steps for safe and secure travel.

The paramilita­ry force personnel took the conducted trials for doing away with stamping of hand baggage tags in two phases at 13 major airports between December 6 last and January.

On the success of the trial run, need to stamp hand baggage tags in the 27 airports, including Indira Gandhi Internatio­nal Airport, has been removed.

For prompt grievance redressal of passengers,

The personnel also recovered 4,758 items like laptops, cameras, mobiles, wrist watches, wallets, currency, jewellery, passports, PAN cards, jackets and bags worth more than 4 crores and returned them to their respective owners after verificati­on

in case of any complaint regarding loss of property, articles, either through email or hard copy, efforts are made by the CISF to provide necessary informatio­n to passengers.

The grievances are scanned thoroughly with the help of the recordings­a of the closed circuit television ( CCTV) cameras, statement of personnel/ staff and the outcome of the same is informed to the complainan­t.

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