India, May 21 -- The Madhya Pradesh high court ordered Rs.10 lakh compensation for an engineer's unlawful detention after security at the Bhopal airport wrongly flagged packets of dried mango powder and spices in his luggage as narcotics, 16 years ago, in 2010.

The ordeal began in May 2010 when Ajay Singh, the engineer, was preparing to board a flight to Delhi. A scan of his luggage wrongly indicated traces of heroin and Methyldiethanolamine.

Singh's lawyer, Ajay Gupta, said a case was registered at Gandhi Nagar Police Station in Bhopal, and Singh was arrested. "The seized powders were sent to the Regional Forensic Laboratory, which lacked the equipment to conduct the necessary analysis. Ten days later, the samples were sent to the Cent...