Two British plane-spotters have been fined 25,000 rupees each (£365) by an Indian court after admitting illegally monitoring aircraft.
Stephen Hampton, 46, and Steven Ayres, 56, both from Bristol, appeared before magistrates in Delhi charged with intercepting communications. The pair, who had faced a jail term, were told they could return to the UK.
They had sparked suspicion after asking a Delhi hotel for a room overlooking Indira Gandhi International Airport. They were carrying an air traffic control scanner, a laptop, binoculars and cameras. |