Youth molests co-passenger, abuses flight attendants

Mumbai: A 24-year-old engineering student was handed over to the police after a woman co-passenger filed a molestation complaint with the airline on Friday afternoon.
The passenger, Prashant Imene, who was aboard a Jet Airways London-Mumbai flight, also assaulted the cabin crew and hurled cuss words at them. To add to it, he allegedly threatened to throw his passport out of the window, tore his boarding pass, splashed water on a male flight attendant's face and hit an elderly passenger with a spoon.
A complaint was filed by Jet Airways airhostess Kayazi Mehta after the flight landed in Mumbai at 11.35am. The drama began when Imene suddenly started abusing people sitting next to him. He then tried to assault and molest the female passenger sitting next to him. "He forcibly touched her on the chest,'' said a police official.
Imene assaulted the male flight attendants when they tried to intervene. "He stood on his seat and kept shouting at everyone,'' said an airline official. "He was hurling cuss words at a female cabin crew member. Some of them were so scared that they refused to come ahead to even attend to other passengers,'' he added.
After almost an hour, the flight commander ordered that Imene be handcuffed and tied to his seat. "He went off to sleep after that. After he woke up, he was perfectly normal,'' said an official.
Imene, a native of Hyderabad, was pursuing an engineering degree in London. He will be produced in court on Saturday.
31/01/09 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India

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