Three tourists from Telangana and Hyderabad were booked by the Lonavla city police for allegedly flying a drone in the highly restricted and sensitive Air Force Station zone in Lonavla city, officials said on Tuesday. The complaint against the trio was lodged by corporal Vivek Kumar Vijay Tiwari, an Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel, in the afternoon on Monday following which, action was taken by the police.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), Tiwari was stationed as a guard at the main gate when a person approached him and informed that some persons were flying a drone in the restricted air force area, and conducting an aerial shoot at around 1.05 pm. Tiwari stepped out of the air force area onto the road outside, and saw a person flying a drone with a remote control and shooting the restricted area at one end of the road. Tiwari ordered the person to stop the aerial activity and bring down the drone and confiscated the machine, the FIR stated.
