Cabin Crew crew frames passengers in fake molestation case

Kolkata: Instances of passengers misbehaving with airline crew are common but an instance of the crew framing passengers in a fake molestation case to hide a mistake as simple as not giving warm water to a sick passenger is rare indeed.
That, however, is exactly what happened in a case heard by a court in Kolkata yesterday, in which it not only gave interim bail to the six passengers involved, but also issued a warrant against the crew, captain and the ground clearance staff for curtailing the passengers' liberty by filing a fake case against them.
Speaking to MiD DAY, A K Singh, a passenger on board the Indigo Airlines flight 6 E 342 from Patna to Bangalore via Kolkata, said, "I asked a crew member for warm water as my friend Ali Ahmed had a stomach pain.
However, when the flight landed at Kolkata, almost forty-five minutes had passed and the water was not served. We decided to bring the matter to the notice of the pilot and asked the airhostess to lead us to him.
Afraid that her mistake would be reported, she got furious and began shouting."
A member of the ground clearance staff joined the airhostess and Singh and his friends were offloaded on charges of molesting the airhostess.
"We were offloaded around 7.30 pm on Monday but the airline staff informed the police almost four-and-a-half hours after that," added Singh.
17/03/10 Bipin Kumar Singh/MiD DAY

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