National-level BSF footballer held for theft at IGI airport

NEW DELHI: Delhi police on Tuesday arrested a BSF constable for allegedly stealing bags from the conveyer belt of the Indira Gandhi International airport.

NEW DELHI: Delhi police on Tuesday arrested a BSF constable for allegedly stealing bags from the conveyer belt of the Indira Gandhi International airport.

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The arrested constable, police said, was a national level football player who had won 11 medals.

The accused — 34-year-old Jasbir Singh alias Sheera, a resident of Punjab — was nabbed while he was stealing two bags.

Singh had stolen a checked-in bag from the luggage conveyer belt and used it as his hand bag while boarding another flight, police said.

DCP (airport) DK Gupta said that on June 7, they received a complaint from Air India security about a checked-in bag that had been stolen on May 11. The passenger whose luggage was stolen had taken a Lucknow-Delhi flight.

Gupta said that on receiving information, they registered an FIR and started probe. During the probe, the police received information about another theft that had taken place on May 13.

Gupta said the police team formed to probe the case looked at CCTV footage and zeroed in on three men who had travelled from Amritsar to Delhi on May 11 and taken a connecting flight to Ahmedabad.

“We found the involvement of one passenger Jasbir Singh, a resident of Amritsar. Singh did not have any check-in baggage when he landed in Delhi from Amritsar. He was supposed to board a different flight later in the day and in the interim he went to the luggage conveyer belt and stole the bag,” said Gupta.

During investigation, police found that Singh took the stolen bag as a hand bag while going to Ahmedabad. After reaching Ahmedabad, he had checked into a hotel and returned to Delhi on May 13. On his way back to Amritsar, he stole another bag from a Paris-Delhi flight conveyer belt and used it as his hand baggage to Amritsar.

Police said Singh told them that he had stolen the bags to get money for his girlfriend. Police recovered Rs 40,000 in cash from the two bags that Singh had stolen along with a Sony camera and six gift items.