Airport fight: Police finalise chargesheet

Thiruvananthapuram: The police have named certain CISF personnel and immigration officials as prosecution witnesses in its chargesheet against two air passengers who were booked last month on the charge of assaulting CISF Inspector Subroto Chatterji and other passengers at the international airport here on February 7, 2009.
The police will file its chargesheet in the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court this week after getting Deputy Director of Prosecution V. Radhakrishnan’s opinion.
The accused are ‘Madathil’ Reghu, 49, owner of a chain of ‘dance bars’ in Abu Dhabi, and his business partner and Egypt-born UK national Ahmed Muhammed Al-Jalak, 30.
The police have charged them with assault by hand, voluntarily causing hurt to a Government official to prevent him from discharging his duty, verbal abuse and common intention under sections 323, 332, 294 (b) and 34 respectively of the Indian Penal Code.
The prosecution case was that Reghu and Al-Jalak, in an allegedly inebriated state, assaulted and verbally abused fellow passengers at the airport’s arrival hall.
They were apparently angry that as business class passengers they did not get preferential treatment at the immigration clearance counter manned by the State police. The accused allegedly attempted to jump the queue in front of the counter, resulting in a fracas with other passengers.
They allegedly assaulted Subtoro Chatterji, the security shift in charge, when he tried to dissuade them from behaving in an ‘unruly, uncontrolled and offensive’ manner.
24/03/09 Kerala Online

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Categories: Airports Mar 2009