While lost luggage is arguably the most common source of angst and exasperation among fliers, a particular section of fliers passing through the green channel of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) seem all too eager to leave behind their baggage, anonymous and unclaimed. The Mumbai Airport Customs department manning the green channel of the CSIA with hawk-eyed vigilance, have been observing this curious new trend recently, where smugglers, anticipating that they might be nabbed while going through Customs screening, are abandoning their consignments at the baggage screening counters after divesting them of their name tags.

No takers: In the past week, the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai Airport Customs has seized three anonymous unclaimed consignments of smuggled goods.u00a0Representation pic