What a pet project! Flyers caught smuggling dogs in check-in luggage
After gold, drugs and currency, officials at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport have added pet dogs to their list of ‘smuggled’ goods to watch out for.
Recently, staff manning the X-ray machines at the arrival hall found an unconscious dog stuffed between clothes in the suitcase of a woman travelling to the city from eastern Europe. She confessed to having sedated her pet and put it in her check-in luggage.
Customs officials have come across four such cases of “dog smuggling” in the last three months. The owners did it to avoid documentation work, sources said.
Bringing in a pet through legal channels requires a no-objection certificate from the animal quarantine station of the destination country. The pet can come either as check-in luggage or air cargo.
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