A drunk male passenger allegedly molested an air hostess on a Delhi–Shirdi IndiGo flight, in accordance with Maharashtra police. The incident occurred close to the plane’s toilet, the place the passenger reportedly touched the crew member inappropriately.
Following the incident, the air hostess alerted her crew supervisor, who knowledgeable airport safety upon touchdown at Shirdi on Friday afternoon. The passenger was taken into custody and escorted to the Rahata police station, the place a case of molestation was registered.
A medical examination confirmed the passenger had consumed alcohol. He was later served a discover by Rahata Police.
Air India has confronted a sequence of troubling in-flight incidents lately. In 2017, a enterprise class passenger on a Mumbai–Newark flight moved to an empty seat in financial system to sit down beside a girl and later groped her whereas she was asleep. Earlier in 2024, an Indian nationwide urinated on a fellow passenger throughout a flight from Delhi to Bangkok. In one other current case, a Supreme Court docket choose shared an disagreeable expertise the place an intoxicated co-passenger locked themselves within the plane toilet and slept there for half-hour.
(With PTI inputs)
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