Mangaluru airport director denies allegation of passport tearing by staff
Mangaluru: Mangaluru International Airport’s Director, Vasamsetti Venkateswara Rao, ordered investigations into the allegations of a passenger that her passport was torn into splits by airport security staff.
However according to Venkateswara Rao, the allegations labeled by the family against the security staffs of the airport that they had deliberately torn the passport of Rubeena (28), who was to travel to Dubai from Mangaluru to join her husband in the gulf nation.
Speaking to Varthabharati over phone call, Mangaluru airport director, Vasamsetti Venkateswara Rao, said “We have checked the CCTV footage, and from it we can figure out that, whatever allegations have been made against airport staffs are false and untrue”.
“With the CCTV footage, we can easily conclude that the allegations are false. I don’t know what caused the damage to the passport, but it is definitely not what they passengers have alleged” he added.
He further added that the airport authorities will soon issue a press release in this regard.
Earlier, Vasamsetti Venkateswara Rao, had ordered investigations into the matter after the families allegations that the passport of Rubeena was torned by the security staff when she had been to get child stroller, after handing her passport to the security officer at the gate, for verification.
The family, after Rubeena reached Dubai, had complained the matter to the Abdu Dhabi Embassy, who had then forwarded it to the Mangaluru Airport Director.
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Approval of registered housing societies must to operate liquor shops on their premises: Ajit Pawar
Nagpur (PTI): Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday said that shops selling Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) as well as country liquor will be required to obtain mandatory consent from registered housing societies before commencing operations from the commercial spaces on their premises.
Pawar, who also heads the excise department, directed that this new policy be implemented across the state.
"Permission from registered housing societies will now be compulsory for both categories of liquor shops. The policy must be enforced uniformly throughout Maharashtra," Pawar told the Lower House of the state legislature while responding to a question raised by BJP MLA Shankar Jagtap, who represents the Chinchwad assembly constituency in Pune district.
Jagtap sought cancellation of licences of liquor shops operating in Chinchwad-Kalewadi area of Pune.
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During the discussion, he said that Vikrant Wine, a liquor shop in Sahyadri Society, had begun operations in violation of norms.
The building was incomplete when permission was granted, and the licence had been issued on the basis of incomplete documents, Jagtap said, demanding action against those responsible.
Responding to this, Pawar reiterated the mandatory requirement of the respective housing society's consent for liquor outlets, and informed the House about the action taken regarding the two shops against which complaints had been received.
During the Budget session of the state legislature held in March this year, Pawar had announced that a no-objection certificate (NOC) from housing societies will be mandatory for liquor vends if they wish to migrate to their premises.
Many housing societies have commercial establishments, with some even having liquor vends.
