Two held for trying to fly to China on fake tickets

Kolkata: Two persons were arrested at the city airport today for allegedly trying to board a China-bound flight on fake tickets, while customs officials seized 500 gm gold from a passenger from Bangkok.

Airport officials said two persons, residents of Iqbalpur area in the city, sought to board a flight for Kunming in China but their tickets raised suspicion in the mind of CISF personnel in-charge of security at the NSCBI Airport.

Following checking and questioning of the two passengers - Md Ishan and Mustaq Alam - the security men were sure that their tickets were fake.

The two were then arrested, the officials said.

In another incident, customs officials seized 17 gold chains weighing 500 gm from a person who landed here from Bangkok on a Thai Airways flight.

Officials said the gold chains, valued at Rs 14.8 lakh, were kept concealed in containers of a baby cream.

The passenger, Sunil Pandey of Howrah, was detained.