Devanahalli (Karnataka): A female staff member of IndiGo Airlines has filed a complaint at the Kempegowda International Airport police station alleging that a passenger intentionally touched her and sexually assaulted her. A complaint has been registered against the passenger, 40-year-old Sijin from Kerala.
This incident took place on May 22 in the morning when a passenger behaved indecently towards the female staff of IndiGo Airlines. The IndiGo Airlines staff was heading from Cochin to Bhopal via the Bangalore route on an AirAsia flight.
The accused passenger who was sitting in seat number 38 of the flight, was supposed to travel to Goa. He came to the IndiGo staffer and asked for information about changing the flight. She told him to land at Kempegowda International Airport and take another flight to Goa.
While she was standing near the seat, passenger Sijin touched her back. When she asked him why he touched her, he simply did not give any answer. The victim registered a case under 354(A) of the Act against the accused in the police station here alleging the passenger deliberately touched her and behaved rudely.
In a similar incident early last month, a Swedish national was arrested by Mumbai police for allegedly molesting a cabin crew member onboard an IndiGo Bangkok-Mumbai flight. The drunk accused had also allegedly misbehaved with a fellow passenger and created a ruckus mid-air. The accused identified as Klas Erik Harald Jonasm (63) was arrested after a complaint by IndiGo Airlines.
Notably, the Kempegowda incident is the 9th such case of unruly airline passengers misbehaving with the crew, according to officials.
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