Man caught with 10 live bullet rounds at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport

Skytrax released its list of world’s 100 best airports. Singapore Changi Airport continues to lead for the eighth consecutive year. Four Indian Airports managed to take their place in the list. Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport ranked 50th, while Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Bengaluru’s Kempegowda Airport and Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport ranked 52, 68 and 72 respectively. Here are the world’s top 10 airports of 2020 on the basis of airport customers’ review. (Image: PTI)

A man was apprehended on Monday at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport for allegedly carrying 10 live bullets in his bag, an official said.

I Hiramani was going through the security checks at the Indira Gandhi International airport at around 7:00 am when a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel detected few "bullet-like objects" in his luggage, said the senior official involved in airport security.

"Ten live bullet rounds of 32-calibre were recovered from his bag. He was handed over to the police as he could not produce the valid documents for carrying it," he added.

The man was supposed to take a flight to Bengaluru, he said.

This is not the first time that something like this has happened at the airport. Previously, a flight from Delhi had to make an emergency landing at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport due to a mobile-like device that had triggered suspicion and panic.

In another instance on August 21, drone-like objects were spotted on two different occasions at the Indira Gandhi International airport following which the airport operations had to be halted for almost an hour amid security concerns following the spotting of the objects.

In August, a bomb scare delayed a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur by three hours. 

(With inputs from PTI)