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NEW DELHI: Police on Tuesday registered a case against the "concerned staff" of Continental Airlines for frisking former President A P J Abdul Kalam at the IGI airport here in breach of protocol.
The case was registered after the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) approached the police against the staff of the American airliner for carrying out pre-embarkation body check of Kalam, which is in gross violation of a BCAS circular which exempts specified VVIPs/VIPs from security checks.
"The BCAS has registered an FIR with the SHO, IGI airport police station, against all the concerned staff of the Continental Airlines under Section 11A of Aircraft Act, 1934 for willful violation of the directions issued by BCAS," an official statement said.
The civil aviation ministry earlier in the day directed the BCAS to conduct an inquiry into reports about Kalam being frisked by the airline staff on April 21 before he was to board a Newark-bound flight.
"As per the FIR, on April 21, Kalam was traveling by Continental Airlines Flight No.CO-083 from IGI Airport to New York. As he proceeded towards the aircraft, the staff of the Continental Airlines carried out frisking of Kalam in contravention of the BCAS rule even as CISF personnel pointed out that he was exempt from such checks," it said.
Earlier reports had said that Kalam was frisked at the airport on April 24.
An inquiry was ordered into the matter which established that the staff had wrongfully, under the direction of their security-in-charge, country director and station manager, carried out pre-embarkation body check of Kalam.
A show-cause notice was issued on July 9 to the station manager of Continental Airline asking why action should not be taken against them under Section 11A of Aircraft Act, 1934, and were given seven days to respond.
According to the statement, "no reply has been received till date. The BCAS has thus registered an FIR with the SHO, IGI airport police station, against all the concerned staff of the Continental Airlines under section 11A of Aircraft Act, 1934 for willful violation of the directions issued by BCAS."
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