Drama at Delhi airport as Barabanki MP insists on taking knife on flight

Sources told The Indian Express that Rawat was taking Air India flight-411 to Lucknow. “The flight was scheduled for 7.10 am. At security checking, personnel detected an unfolded knife when her hand baggage was put inside the X-ray machine,” sources said.

Sources said Rawat, a first-time MP who was recently in news for allegedly threatening to “skin” additional superintendent of police (north) K Gyananjay Singh over reported misconduct, refused to take out the unfolded knife. “She told the personnel that it was her son’s knife, and that she is an MP. She got into an argument with CISF officers, who then called senior officers to try and convince her,” sources said.

Security officials later called the duty manager of Air India. “Officials told her to call someone and hand over the knife to them. When she refused, they suggested she put the knife in the check-in baggage. But she wasn’t keen on this either,” sources said, adding that she also threatened to file FIR against the personnel.

Eventually, the duty manager told her the flight was about to take off, and that passengers were getting late. “Rawat asked the duty manager to give her knife to the aircraft crew, saying they can carry it for her. But crew members informed them this wasn’t allowed either. The duty manager later asked her to put the knief in the ‘hold area’, and she agreed,” sources said.