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Power of lens: thief caught in airport
CCTV captured a businessman passenger removing Rs 25,000 cash from the suitcase of a passenger.
And it did work. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) sleuths at Bangalore���s HAL airport caught a man stealing cash recently.
The CCTV cameras captured a ���businessman��� passenger, who was to board an Air Sahara flight to Kolkata from Bangalore, removing Rs 25,000 cash from the suitcase of a passenger near the check-in counter.
Soon after the complainant, M.K. Bhai, reported it to the CISF personnel, sleuths began their investigation. While three men in their 50s were put on the scanner, the sleuths couldn���t pin them down since the victim was not sure who it could be.
After the passengers boarded the flight, the sleuths ran the videotapes and there came the evidence. Soon, CISF counterparts in Kolkata were alerted and as soon as the plane touched down, the culprit Vishwanath Sarkar, a 50-year-old suave passenger, was taken into police custody, sources said.
CISF officials across the country recently nabbed several bag-lifters hovering around terminal buildings.
In Mumbai airport, for instance, a number of them were caught in action. All this thanks to CCTVs.
But with the 7/7 experience that devastated London a couple of weeks ago, officials have gone hyper-sensitive. But they have a genuine problem: outdated CCTV equipment; over seven to ten years old. The CISF has now sent a proposal to Airports Authority of India (AAI) headquarters to replace the current equipment with digital CCTVs at all vital airports including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.
Current CCTVs in airports here do not project sharp images. Neither is the zooming good. The new cameras, expected to track down specific images, will produce moving pictures and will be the latest available in the market.
The CISF has estimated a Rs 40-crore cost to instal the new cameras; the sanction is expected shortly, airport sources said.
Interestingly, the Israeli El Al Airlines has installed digital cameras on their flights and every movement in the aircraft is recorded.
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