Mangaluru : The City police on Friday arrested a woman in connection with the ‘suspicious power bank’ seizure case reported at Mangaluru International Airport on September 19.

The accused Parvathi Bai, 50, who hails from Maharashtra, was arrested for selling duplicate power bank in the city. Police sources said that she has been procuring duplicate power banks from Maharashtra and selling the same on footpaths in the city.

On September 19, Dubai bound passenger via Kempegowda International Airport, identified as Mohammed Mansoor from Kannur in the city outskirts, was offloaded at the Airport after airlines security check came across a suspicious device in his checked in baggage. Later, Customs officials found that the suspicious device was a duplicate power bank. Following this, the city police continued the investigation and zeroed in on the woman.

In fact, the passenger had bought the power bank from the woman.

During the baggage scan, CISF had found suspicious object and for security reason the passenger was offloaded then. The local bomb disposal squad was also called in to check out the same as a precaution on that day.