Aizawl Airline staff held

Aizawl, Nov 10 : The Mizoram Police on Wednesday arrested six groundstaff of a private airline after a Kolkata-bound passenger’s Rs 7 lakh in cash went missing.

A police officer said the airline personnel were arrested on the basis of a complaint of the passenger, who had kept the money in his hand baggage before boarding the airplane at the Lengpui Airport near here Tuesday.

“The pasenger told the Mizoram Police that the Rs 7 lakh cash was missing at the Kolkata airport,” the officer told reporters. Police are questioning the airline employees.