Salem doctor booked

Coimbatore: The city police have booked a Salem-based doctor for attempting to send an air pistol to Uttar Pradesh through air cargo.
Suganya, a security agent at Coimbatore International Airport, had found the gun while screening baggage, station security head C K Murugan told police. “The tax invoice of the consignment was issued by Syndicate Innovations International Limited in Ghaziabad. The gun was sold by the company to one Samuel Stephen of Vinayakampatti in Salem and the consignment was booked from Salem through a courier service. The consignment is not supposed to be carry forward by the air cargo and is a violation under the rules of the Aircraft Act, 1934,” he said.
The Peelamedu police began an investigation. Preliminary investigation revealed that Samuel Stephan, a doctor who owns a hospital in Salem, bought the air pistol online for his son a month ago. As it was faulty, the doctor tried to send it to the company in Uttar Pradesh for repairing it. He did not inform the courier firm that it was a gun. Police registered an FIR against Stephan under sections 10 (1) of the Aircraft Act 1934 and 40 of Aircraft Security Rules 2011. tnn