Chennai: Woman loses gold worth Rs 8.5L on airlines

CHENNAI: A passenger on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Airport police claiming that gold worth 8.5 lakh, diamonds, and other valuables have gone missing from her suitcase.


On November 8, Roopa Singh, who took a private airline, boarded a flight from Chennai to reach Hyderabad via Jaipur. After landing at her destination, she found her suitcase missing. The authorities at the airport told her that they will send the suitcase to her address.

Later she received a call, allegedly from the airlines, claiming that she possessed banned substances in her suitcase which needed to be checked. They also took the unlock code of her suitcase. After two days, she received the suitcase and found 8.5 lakh worth of gold jewellery and other valuables missing.

Though she lodged a complaint with the airlines, she failed to get any proper replies. Upset over this, she lodged a complaint at Airport police station seeking action against the airlines staff. A probe is on in the case.