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IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/04/2015

Internal records of the Indira Gandhi International Airport record under the category “restoration of property” an incident on March 30 when a passenger left an envelope containing cash at a check-in counter by mistake. It disappeared. On his complaint airport security scanned CCTV footage and identified the person who had picked it up. Then they located him at a boarding gate and “tactfully” questioned him. He produced the packet and the CISF turned the matter over to the local police. The man named is a rather well known TOI sports journalist based in Mumbai.

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