A CA, why he created scare? Cops in a fix

New Delhi: The man who caused a scare on Sunday's Indigo flight E-664, from Delhi to Goa, Jeetendra Mohala (42), was remanded to 14 days in judicial custody at Dwarka Metropolitan Court on Monday. Mohala has been booked under sections 336 (act endangering life and personal safety of others) and section 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code and Suppression of Unlawful Act Against Safety Of Civil Aviation Act, 1982, which is non-bailable.
However, the cops probing the incident are still clueless about why Mohala, a chartered accountant and son of a retired Air Commodore from the Indian Air Force, behaved like this. "The NSG handed him over to us on Monday and we are investigating the matter. It is difficult to determine the motive for his actions yet and questioning is on,'' said DCP (airport) Sanjay Kumar. He added that the other two persons, identified as Sameer Uppal and Harmeet Anand, who were detained along with Mohala, were released by Sunday late evening after questioning because there was nothing to suggest that they were active participants in the incident. Both of them pleaded innocence.
Ujjwal Mishra, additional CP (operations), said he was not sure what prompted the accused to act in such a manner. "However, there are many independent versions which prove that the accused had misbehaved with the air hostesses,'' said Mishra.
Surprisingly, even though initially there were allegations that Mohala was drunk during the incident, no test to determine this was conducted on him, and police say that by the time they were given his custody, it was too late to conduct any such test. Mohala was, reportedly, unarmed when he was arrested and there was nothing in his luggage that could be used as a weapon.
Mohala's family, which stays at Air Force-Naval Officers Enclave for retired officers in Dwarka Sector 7 refused to comment on the issue.
03/02/09 Medha Chaturvedi/Times of India

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