Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 9: In response to IndiGo’s refusal to board a youngster with a disability, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia claimed he was ‘investigating the matter’ himself.
“There is zero tolerance towards such behaviour. No human being should have to go through this! Investigating the matter by myself, post which appropriate action will be taken (sic),” the aviation minister tweeted on Monday morning.
There is zero tolerance towards such behaviour. No human being should have to go through this! Investigating the matter by myself, post which appropriate action will be taken. https://t.co/GJkeQcQ9iW
— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) May 9, 2022
According to a tweet posted widely on social media by Manisha Gupta, the founder and director of a company called Start Up India, the incident occurred on Saturday.
“An adolescent with special needs was in severe distress yesterday at the Ranchi airport. He’d endured a harrowing vehicle ride to the airport. He appeared to be in the throes of hunger, thirst, anxiety, and disorientation by the time he had gone through security and arrived at the gate (almost an hour before boarding),” the post continued, calling it a shame and distress occurrence.
“The Indigo staff announced that the child would not be allowed to take the flight. That he was a risk to other passengers. That he would have to become ‘normal’ before he could be travel-worthy. And the staff then went on to state something on the lines of ‘behaviours such as this, and that of drunk passengers deems them unfit to travel,” it added.
