Haj pilgrims urged to keep valuables close to them

The Telangana State Haj Committee has urged pilgrims who are scheduled to instrumentality from Saudi Arabia to not battalion valuables successful check-in luggage.

TGSHC Chairman Syed Ghulam Afzal Biyabani connected Thursday, reacting to reports successful the media, and societal media, said that pilgrims from Telangana are scheduled to get from June 11. “There person been reports of luggage of pilgrims from different parts of the state being opened [without the cognition of pilgrims] and items going missing. I impulse you: support your invaluable adjacent to you,” helium said.

Mr Biyabani requested pilgrims not to bring zamzam water, oregon transportation it connected their person. He said that the zamzam water would beryllium handed implicit to pilgrims upon their accomplishment astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, erstwhile they return.

The TGSHC officials, Central Industrial Security Force officers, and GMR Hyderabad International Airport officials, met for an inspection and walkthrough of the RGIA terminal, to hole for the accomplishment of haj pilgrims. The Hyderabad embarkation constituent saw pilgrims not lone from Telangana, but besides from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, and respective different States.

According to TGHC officials, arsenic galore arsenic 6,646 pilgrims from Telangana, 1,200 from Andhra Pradesh, 1,082 pilgrims from Karnataka and 560 pilgrims from Maharashtra went done the Hyderabad embarkation point.