Man arrested for peeing on co-passenger onboard New York-Delhi flight

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New Delhi, April 24, 2023: An Indian man on a New York-New Delhi American Airlines flight allegedly, under the influence of alcohol, urinated on another passenger during an argument on Sunday.

 

The airlines recorded the statements of the co-passengers onboard and handed over the accused to law enforcement, the country’s aviation regulator, the DGCA, said, adding that an FIR has been lodged in the case.

Legal action, under non-cognizable offences of the Civil Aviation Act, was initiated after a complaint was given by the airlines’ staff about the passenger. There was no corroborating evidence or complaint by the co-passengers about the incident, the Delhi Police said.

The incident took place onboard American Airlines flight AA 292 and the "unruly" passenger was arrested by the CISF after the plane landed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport around 9 pm on Sunday.

The airline reported the matter to the Delhi airport before landing and both the passengers involved were later handed over to the Delhi Police. The victim filed a formal complaint, sources told news agency PTI.

This is the third such incident in the recent past.

A drunken man allegedly urinated on his female co-passenger in her seventies in business class of an Air India New York-Delhi flight on November 26 last year. In another incident, a passenger allegedly relieved himself on a vacant seat and blanket of a fellow female passenger when she went to the lavatory onboard an Air India Paris-New Delhi flight on December 6, 2022.

Courtesy: India Today