Rajasthan police quiz 25 border residents on suspicion of their links with Pak's ISI
Jaipur (PTI): The Rajasthan police has quizzed 25 Sriganganagar district residents in the last two days, suspecting them of having come in contact with Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI and its operatives, a senior official said on Friday.
Director-General Umesh Mishra of Rajasthan Police's Intelligence Unit said the residents of the district bordering Pakistan were called at interrogation centres in Suratgarh and Ganganagar for detailed inquiry.
The police have seized their mobile phones and sent them for a detailed forensic test, said Mishra, adding the suspects, however, have been let off for time being.
The action against them will be taken only after some solid evidence of their collusion with Pakistan's Intelligence Operatives surfaces during the forensic tests of their phones.
The police took action during an exercise by its Intelligence Unit to make border residents aware of the malady of Pakistan's ISI design of espionage bids through residents.
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Air India Express crisis: 5 flights cancelled in Kolkata; efforts on to get back to normalcy
Kolkata (PTI): Air India Express on Friday cancelled five flights on four routes from Kolkata as the airline is making efforts to get back to normalcy following the cabin crew-related crisis, an official said.
The airline cancelled two flights between Kolkata and Hyderabad, one each to Chennai, Cochin and Ayodhya, an Air India Express spokesperson told PTI.
These were among the total of 120 flights, both domestic and international, that were cancelled across the country on Friday, even after the section of the cabin crew who had been on strike since Tuesday night had called it off on Thursday.
According to the spokesperson, besides the 120 cancellations, the airline operated 246 flights to various destinations of which 20 flights were operated by Air India and two by Vistara.
Sources in the airline said though the cabin crew started reporting back to work, putting them on flights was not possible immediately due to a lot of technicalities related to rostering and re-rostering.
Things are expected to be fully normal in one-and-a-half days.
Sources also said that some time will also be consumed in the medical check-up of the cabin crew who reported back to work, besides working out the entire duty roster.
Notably, the strike (sudden mass sick leave) by a section of the cabin crew since Tuesday night had resulted in cancellation of more than 170 flights was called off on Thursday evening.
The airline also had withdrawn the termination letters issued to 25 striking cabin crew.
The cabin crew had started reporting sick to protest against alleged mismanagement at the airline.
