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A Sweden national was arrested in Mumbai for allegedly molesting a cabin crew member onboard an IndiGo flight from Bangkok, officers stated on April 1.
The accused has been recognized as, Klas Erik Harald Jonasm, 63, police stated.
The Swedish national was handed over to Mumbai police by the airline workers when the flight landed at Mumbai Airport on Thursday, officers stated.
The accused was arrested on Thursday after a grievance by IndiGo Airlines and was produced in the Andheri courtroom on Friday and granted bail the identical day, officers stated. A chargesheet was filed by the police, in Andheri courtroom on Friday.
Police stated they’ve began additional investigations into the case.
This is the eighth unruly airline passenger arrested in India in the previous three months, in accordance with officers.
On March 23, Mumbai’s Sahar Police booked two IndiGo flyers travelling from Dubai to Mumbai for allegedly being drunk and misbehaving with the crew, police stated earlier in the month.
The arrested passengers had been recognized as Dattatreya Bapardekar and John George D’Souza.
“Two Indigo flyers have been booked under section 336 of the Indian Penal Code [IPC] & sections 21, 22 and 25 of Aircraft rules for being drunk & misbehaving with the crew. Both were arrested formally but as the sections were bailable, they were granted bail from the police station itself,” DCP Dixit Gedam, Mumbai Police instructed ANI earlier in the month.
According to the police, the incident occurred on March 22. It is alleged that passengers John George D’Souza and Dattatreya Anand Bapardekar began ingesting after the flight took off from Dubai on an Indigo flight to Mumbai.
When the cabin crew discovered this, they knowledgeable them concerning the ban on ingesting alcohol contained in the flight. But each the accused bought infuriated and stood up from their seat and began strolling contained in the flight drunk.
