Mumbai: A US citizen has been booked on the costs of allegedly smoking in the toilet and misbehaving with different passengers on Air India London-Mumbai flight. According to Mumbai police, a case has been registered towards 37-year-old Ramakant at Sahar Police Station for inflicting inconvenience mid-flight on March 11.
They additional acknowledged that the case has been registered underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) part 336 (whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to hazard human life or the non-public security of others) and Aircraft Act 1937, 22 (refuse to observe a lawful instruction given by the Pilot-in-Command), 23 (Assault and different acts endangering security or jeopardizing good order and self-discipline) and 25 (for smoking).
What Air India’s crew member stated
“Smoking is not allowed on the flight but as he went to the bathroom the alarm started to ring and when we all crew ran towards the bathroom saw he had a cigarette in his hand. We immediately threw the cigarette from his hand. Then Ramakant started shouting at all our crew members. Somehow we took him to his seat. But after some time he tried to open the door of the aircraft. All the passengers got scared because of his behaviour and he started acting gimmick on the flight. He was not ready to listen to us and was shouting. Then we tied his hands and legs and made him sit on the seat,” the crew member of Air India advised the Sahar Police, ANI reported.Â
According to the police, “One person among the passenger was a doctor. He came and checked him. Then Ramakant said that he has some medicine in his bag we didn’t find any but an e-cigarette was recovered while checking the bag.”
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US nationwide booked underneath numerous sections of IPC
After the flight landed, the passenger Ramkant was handed over to the Sahar police the place he was taken into custody and booked underneath numerous sections of the IPC. “We have sent the sample of the accused for medical test to confirm whether he was in an inebriated state or mentally disturbed,” the police added.
They additionally confirmed that the accused is of Indian origin however a citizen of the United States of America and holds a US passport.
(With inputs from ANI)Â
