Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, March 23: Mumbai’s Sahar Police have booked two IndiGo flyers travelling from Dubai to Mumbai for allegedly being drunk and misbehaving with the crew on Thursday.
The arrested passengers have been identified as Dattatreya Bapardekar and John George D’Souza.
Mumbai's Sahar police arrested two passengers who were travelling from Dubai to Mumbai for allegedly creating a ruckus on the flight under the influence of alcohol. FIR was registered after a complaint was received from IndiGo. The names of the arrested passengers are Dattatreya…
— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2023
“Two Indigo flyers have been booked under section 336 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) & sections 21,22 and 25 of Aircraft rules for being drunk & misbehaving with the crew. Both were arrested formally but as the sections were bailable, they were granted bail from the police station itself”, said DCP Dixit Gedam, Mumbai Police.
As per the police, the incident took place on Wednesday, and it is alleged that passengers John George D’Souza and Dattatreya Anand Bapardekar started drinking after the flight took off from Dubai on an Indigo flight coming from Dubai to Mumbai. When the cabin crew found this, they informed them about the ban on drinking alcohol inside the flight. But both the accused got infuriated and stood up from their seat and started walking inside the flight drunk.
Two passengers travelling on flight 6E 1088 from Dubai to Mumbai were observed to be in an inebriated state and continued consuming alcohol onboard despite multiple warnings from the crew. They verbally abused the crew and co-passengers. As per protocol, they were handed over to… pic.twitter.com/KL9JdWMY99
— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2023
The police further said that an FIR was registered against both passengers after a complaint was received from IndiGo. Further investigation is underway.
