Unruly passenger
Man booked for smoking, misbehaving on Air India's London-Mumbai flight
Mumbai: A case has been registered against an unruly passenger, who was caught smoking in the lavatory on an Air India London-Mumbai flight, Mumbai Police said on Sunday, news agency ANI reported
The passenger, identified as Ramakant, also misbehaved with co-passengers.
Mumbai's Sahar Police Station filed the case against him for his causing inconvenience mid-flight on March 11.
Police have filed charges under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 336 (whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others) and Aircraft Act 1937, 22 (refuse to follow a lawful instruction given by the Pilot-in-Command), 23 (Assault and other acts endangering safety or jeopardizing good order and discipline) and 25 (for smoking), the report said.
"Smoking is not allowed on the flight but as he went to the bathroom the alarm started to ring and when we all crew ran towards the bathroom saw he had a cigarette in his hand. We immediately threw the cigarette from his hand. Then Ramakant started shouting at all our crew members. Somehow we took him to his seat.
But after some time he tried to open the door of the aircraft. All the passengers got scared because of his behavior and he started acting gimmick on the flight. He was not ready to listen to us and was shouting. Then we tied his hands and legs and made him sit on the seat," the crew member of Air India told the Sahar Police, according to the ANI report.
The accused passenger didn't even stop and started banging his head.
"One person among the passenger was a doctor. He came and checked him. Then Ramakant said that he has some medicine in his bag we didn't find any but an e-cigarette was recovered while checking the bag," the police added.
The passenger was transferred to the Sahar police upon the flight's arrival.
The police took him into custody and charged him with multiple sections of the IPC.
According to the authorities, Ramkant is an Indian-origin individual but holds a US passport and citizenship.
"We have sent the sample of the accused for medical test to confirm whether he was in an inebriated state or mentally disturbed," the police added.
More details about the case are awaited.
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