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Mumbai airport's side business nets Rs 2 lakh
Updated On: 28 September, 2009 07:42 AM IST | | Huma Z Syed
Till a little over a year ago, goods confiscated from passengers' handbags and those from luggage left behind were destroyed under a road roller.
Till a little over a year ago, goods confiscated from passengers' handbags and those from luggage left behind were destroyed under a road roller.
But now the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) has smartened up and started auctioning the expensive items seized, earning them around Rs 2 lakh in the process.
Some of the items include laptops, cellphones, clothes, iPods and expensive lighters.
"All objects that are left behind and not claimed by the passengers are now disposed of every four months.
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Clothes are auctioned off to Indian Red Cross society and the liquor bottles are broken every two weeks," said an official spokesperson of MIAL.
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