The accused, identified as Jarnail Singh, a class 10 drop-out, had earlier been booked in a case under the Excise Act in Punjab in 2013, they said.
On being interrogated, he said, he had come to drop a person at the airport, and he stole accessories from a Innova parked next to his taxi in the parkig lot there, police said.
The stolen accessories were later recovered from him, they said, adding, further investigation is underway.