Ex-CISF man held for planting explosive in Kingfisher flight

Updated on March 29, 2010 Monday

Thiruvananthapuram: A former CISF man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly planting crude explosive material in a Kingfisher aircraft here last week, police said.

Rajasekharan Nair (49), an employee of a private agency engaged for ground-handling work at airport, has confessed to have placed the material in the cargo-hold of the Kingfisher flight which arrived here from Bangalore last Sunday, police said. 

Nair, who is from nearby Narvamoodu, was taken into custody two days ago.

Nair is being questioned to ascertain the motive behind his action, IG (South) A Hemachandran and City Police Commissioner R Ajith Kumar told reporters.

Asked if it was any personal enmity with some security personnel at the airport that prompted the former CISF man to commit the crime, the officers said the statements given by him had to be verified before drawing any conclusion. 

On Nair's antecedents, they said he had served CISF for 20 years before he took voluntary retirement in 2003 and joined three years back the Universal Aviation Private Service Ltd, which had ground-handling jobs contract at the airport.

When the incident happened, Nair was the supervisor of the ground-handling work at the airport. Surprisingly, it was Nair who had brought the matter to the notice of authorities.

PTI