Prohibited Item List

The following items that are banned for carriage on person/hand baggage on board flights operating from civil airports in India; and Indian Registered aircrafts from foreign airports :

Personal Items

01 Lighters

02 Scissors-metal with pointed tips

03 Realistic replica of toy weapon 

Sharp Objects

04 Box Cutters

05 Ice Axes/ Ice Picks

06 Knives (any length and type except round-bladed, butter, and plastic cutlery)

07 Meat Cleavers

08 Razor-Type Blades such as box cutters, utility knives, razor blades not in a cartridge, but excluding safety razors

09 Sabers

10 Scissors – metal with pointed tips

11 Sword

 Sporting Goods

12 Baseball Bats

13 Bows and Arrows

14 Cricket Bats

15 Golf Clubs

16 Hockey Sticks

17 Lacrosse Sticks

18 Pool Cues

19 Ski Poles

20 Spear Guns

Guns and Firearms

21 Ammunition

22 BB guns

23 Compressed Air Guns

24 Firearms

25 Flare Guns

26 Gun Lighters

27 Gun Powder

28 Parts of Guns and Firearms

29 Pellet Guns

30 Realistic Replicas of Firearms

31 Starter pistols

Tools

32 Axes and hatchets

33 Cattle Prods

34 Crowbars

35 Hammers

36 Drills (including cordless portables power drills)

37 Saws (including cordless portable power saws)

38 Screwdrivers (except those in eyeglass repair kits)

39 Tools (including but not limited to wrenches and pliers)

40 Wrenches and Pliers

​Martial Arts / Self Defense Items

41 Billy Clubs

42 Black Jacks

43 Brass Knuckles

44 Kubatons

45 Mace/ Pepper Spray

46 Martial Arts Weapons

47 Night Sticks48 Nunchakus

49 Martial Arts/ Self Defense Items

50 Stun Guns/ Shocking Devices

51 Throwing Stars

Explosive Materials

52 Blasting Caps

53 Dynamite

54 Fireworks

55 Flares (in any form)

56 Hand Grenades

57 Plastic Explosives

58 Realistic Replicas of Explosives

Flammable items

59 Aerosol (any except for personal care or toiletries in limitedquantities)

60 Fuels (Including cooking fuels and any flammable liquid fuel)

61 Gasoline

62 Gas Torches

63 Lighter Fluid

64 Strike-anywhere Matches

65 Turpentine and paint Thinner

66 Realistic Replicas of Incendiaries

Disabling Chemicals and other Dangerous Items

67 Chlorine for Pools and Spas

68 Compressed Gas Cylinders (including fire extinguishers)

69 Liquid Bleach

70 Spillable Batteries (except those in wheelchairs)

71 Spray Paint

72 Tear Gas

Note : The above mentioned are only indicative lists of items. Commonsense, however, shall prevail in assessing whether an object can be used as a weapon for committing any act of unlawful interference with civil aviation operations.

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