What's wrong with Air India, asks court

Mumbai: While hearing a petition filed by an airhostess challenging her dismissal from Air India (AI) a fortnight before her retirement, the Bombay High Court wondered what was wrong with the airline. A division bench of Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Mridula Bhatkar was hearing a petition filed by Rani
Radhakrishnan.
On July 15, Arvind Jadhav, chairman and managing director of AI, had issued an order dismissing Radhakrishnan from service without full retirement benefits. She was due to retire on July 31 on attaining superannuation.
The case is ostensibly related to a complaint filed by one Soman Alappat alleging that Radhakrishnan's husband Sebastian Felix, who ran a travel agency, and two others had cheated him of Rs 5.74 lakh by promising to assist his brother-in-law get a job visa to the UK, but got it for South Africa.
The complaint said Radhakrishnan had accompanied her husband to the house of Alappat in Cochin in 2004. An FIR had been filed with a local court at Ernakulam.
The airline issued a charge sheet on October 11, 2006, and placed her under suspension. But the complainant withdrew the case saying it was mistakenly filed and she was reinstated after a warning on July 7, 2008.
19/11/10 Hindustan Times

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Categories: Airports Nov 2010