Andheri man creates bogus air ticket to find his phone lost at airport; arrested

On checking the details of his ticket, it was found that no such ticket was issued by the airline to any passenger, and it was a bogus air ticket, the police said.

Shaikh was then handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and subjected to sustained interrogation. The CISF on Monday handed him over to Sahar police and lodged a complaint.

During the investigation, the man told the police that he had lost his mobile phone a week ago at the same airport while travelling from Mumbai to Delhi via the UK950 flight. But, due to an overload of work, he could not lodge a complaint about his lost phone, he said.

“In order to check the airport premises of the departure area by seeing the CCTV camera feeds to see where exactly he lost the mobile phone, he decided to gain entry at the airport using a duplicate air ticket,” said a police officer.

The CISF personnel in the complaint stated that using his laptop, he changed the date of his week-long old journey’s air ticket and, using the same as genuine, gained entry at the airport. But the staff of Vistara Airlines caught him with his suspicious movements and handed him over to the CISF, the CISF personnel said in the FIR.

Shaikh was booked under sections 420 (cheating), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).