MUMBAI: Oil bottles and coconuts—pieces which are confiscated right through the airport safety test have, in a coincidence, ended up turning into ‘bad items’ for over 15 senior officers of Mumbai World Airport Ltd (MIAL) as they have got misplaced their jobs for taking those items for private use, mentioned aviation resources.Final month, the MIAL control allegedly pressured over 15 heart control officers to renounce for having pocketed those safety limited articles (SRA). Those items had been marked for disposal.SRA pieces are gadgets comparable to knives, batteries, toys, cello tape, chilli, lighters, e-cigarettes, coconuts, oil, and so forth, which might be banned within the passenger cabin and therefore confiscated from flyers via the CISF right through pre-departure safety test.The resignations came about final month, from Aug 1, after MIAL’s HR division faced those officers with CCTV photos taken within the earlier months. The photos confirmed those officers taking those SRA pieces for private use. One of the officers TOI spoke to claimed had been advised to both post a resignation in an instant or face termination.MIAL didn’t reply to a question despatched via TOI.The CISF sends the confiscated pieces to the MIAL terminal operations division. On the finish of each and every 12-hour shift a check in access is product of the confiscated SRA items.“The pieces are sure for the rubbish bin or are boxed and picked up via NGO Rescue Basis. We assumed taking an SRA merchandise would not be a big violation which requires termination. For years now, not one of the bosses troubled with the confiscated coconuts, oil bottles. It was once extra of a nuisance,” mentioned one of the crucial officers who was once made to renounce. He added the officers who misplaced their jobs were at the rolls of MIAL for over 1 to two many years and dangle posts comparable to senior responsibility terminal officials, responsibility terminal supervisor, deputy supervisor and senior govt, amongst others. “Our criticism is that we had been kicked out with out up to a caution for a first-time offence,” the authentic added.Recommend Ashok Shetty mentioned, “The punishment will have to be commensurate with the gravity of the misconduct and the period of provider installed via the worker involved. The Perfect Court docket of India emphasises due procedure and an even listening to sooner than terminating an worker.” He added that 15 other people being pressured to renounce quantities to unlawful termination with out protecting an inquiry.Mumbai airport handles about 1.5 lakh passengers an afternoon. In spite of placards showing photos of limited pieces, passengers pack in this stuff. As an example: An access made in Would possibly right through an afternoon shift responsibility had pieces comparable to e-cigarettes (2), fit field (25), coconut (50), cells (10), gear (2), cutter (08), talcum powder (20), scissors (12), knife (9) and screwdriver (14). Passengers it seems that pack in all types of limited pieces. Some days the SRA confiscated pieces checklist stretches to over two dozen pieces—spanners, protecting tape, toy gun, rope, candle, plier, spices, baggage chain, pepper spray, large umbrella, large bat, copra and chilli powder.