Airport staffers arrested for confining, extorting money from flier
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: The Sahar police on Saturday arrested a female cleaning staffer and a private security guard deployed at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport for allegedly confining a flier and demanding ₹50,000 by threatening to report her as a gold smuggler. HT Image According to the Sahar police, the incident took place when the complainant, Jumana Sadriwala, a homemaker and wife of a garment seller from Vasai, returned from Sharjah with two bags of gold dust which she had converted from a gold idol. “Sadriwala told us that after the two guards took her and Yadav to the Level P5 parking lot, they demanded ₹50,000,” said a police officer. Sadriwala found the gold dust pouch missing from the garbage bin when she, along with Yadav, returned to the toilet after they were let go after spending two hours in captivity.