Major Terror Attack at IGI Airport Averted with minutes to spare

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IGI intact; hats off to alert cop

 

Pramod Kumar Singh/ New Delhi

 

An alert head constable of the Central Industrial

Security Force (CISF) saved the Indira Gandhi

International (IGI) airport on Sunday night from being

blown apart after he intercepted and checked a truck

carrying 10.5 kg of white explosive substance

suspected to be sodium azide or potassium chlorate. He

also seized highly potent 69 detonators of " 8

strength " , which are used for triggering

high-intensity blasts and 15 metres of cordex wire.

 

Explosive experts, who examined the substance, said

that the explosive could be converted into a highly

lethal combination by mixing it with diesel. The same

combination was used with telling effect in 1997 when

Abdul Karim Tunda, the commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba

(LeT) had caused 27 blasts.

 

Intelligence sources maintained that the consignment

seized from the premises of IGI airport was part of

the conspiracy to bomb the airport after the twin

blasts in Satyam and Liberty cinema halls.

 

The driver of truck No HR-55-B-1208, Noor Kamal, has

been arrested for carrying explosive materials into

the highly protected area under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of

the Explosive Substances Act.

 

Sources at the IGI airport said Noor Kamal, a resident

of Ramgarh town in Alwar district in Rajasthan, was

being interrogated by joint teams of intelligence

agencies. Though he tried to mislead the interrogators

by claiming that he was going to the hill on the north

side of the runway No 10-28.

 

His preliminary interrogation has revealed that he was

handed over the consignment by a local conduit of LeT.

It appears that Noor Kamal was trained to make bombs

by mixing the explosive substance with diesel and then

attach it with the cordex wire and detonator to

trigger blasts.

 

A CISF official said Bhagwan Singh, the head constable

posted at Gate No. 17, stopped the truck during

routine checking at around 10 pm on Sunday night.

Driver Noor Kamal flashed his driving permit issued by

the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the

permission papers for the entry of the truck. M/s HD

Gupta Contractors, owner of the truck, has been

granted a contract for levelling of the strip of the

airport hill.

 

The driver tried to move ahead, but head constable

Bhagwan Singh noticed one gunny bag hidden below the

driver's seat. He entered the driver's cabin and took

out the bag. He was stunned after he noticed

detonators, fuse wire and explosive substance. He

immediately flashed a message about the seizure. Soon

AAI's manager coordination reached the spot and the

Delhi Police was also informed. The driver was taken

into custody after an FIR was registered.

 

The incident has once again highlighted the fact that

all is not well with the security of the Indira Gandhi

International (IGI). This is the second major security

breach at the high secured IGI airport after a

sub-inspector posted with elite Special Protection

Group and his female accomplice, a constable with CISF

had managed to enter the bay when a flight was about

to take off. An enterprsing thief had managed to steal

a tractor used for towing aircraft to the parking bay

and it is yet to be recovered.

 

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