Passenger offloaded on graft cry

A passenger was offloaded from a flight on Wednesday afternoon, following allegations of fraud brought against him by a businessman. Both were taken to Airport police station and interrogated till late at night.
Avtar Singh, a cloth merchant from Tollygunge, told the police that he had given a “few lakhs” to Avinash Sharma on Wednesday morning. Sharma, a cloth merchant based in Delhi, was supposed to return the money in the afternoon.
“Singh said he had called Sharma several times on his cellphone, but could not speak to him. Initially, Sharma did not pick up the phone and later, switched it off,” said an officer of the airport police station.
Singh knew that Sharma was to leave for Delhi on an Air Sahara flight in the afternoon.
Sharma’s flight was scheduled to take off at 2.40pm. Singh reached the airport at 2.30pm and lodged a complaint with the domestic airport manager, alleging that the businessman from Delhi was taking away his money.
By then, Sharma had boarded the flight. A team of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel brought Sharma down from the aircraft. The flight finally took off at 4pm.
12/07/07 The Telegraph

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Categories: Jet Lite Jul 2007