Security agencies guarding Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport have been put on high alert following the regular sightings of suspicious flying objects in and around the airport.
All security teams including the Intelligence Bureau, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Bureau for Civil Aviation Security and Delhi Police have been asked to remain vigilant of aerial threats. The Indian air force has also been authorised to shoot down any suspicious object if needed, reports say.
According to reports, the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) at IGI observed flying objects three times, in and around the airport on Friday (October 30) as well as on Tuesday (October 27).
Indian Air Force had even pressed a chopper into action to check the flying object, but the helicopter could not find anything.
Reports further say that on 28 October, the pilot of an Air Vistara flight coming from Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, complained of being distracted by a laser beam just before his landing on runway number 29. The use of any laser beam is banned under section 144 of CrPC.