Case Registered Against Passenger for Smoking in Aircraft’s Lavatory – News18
After landing at the Mumbai Airport, the traveller was handed over to IndiGo Airline security officials who took him to the Sahar police station.
(File photo/News18)
The incident took place when the IndiGo flight 6E-1202 was on the way to the Mumbai International Airport
A case was registered against a 28-year-old man here on Thursday for smoking in the lavatory of a Bahrain-Mumbai flight.
The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday when the IndiGo flight 6E-1202 was on the way to the Mumbai International Airport, said an official of Sahar police station.
Cabin crew members noticed that Abu Tahir Kolakkad Mohidu, a resident of Kolar in Karnataka, had smoked inside a rear-side lavatory of the aircraft.
When they confronted him, he admitted to have smoked and handed over a packet of 17 cigarettes and a lighter, the police official said.
After landing at the Mumbai Airport, the traveller was handed over to IndiGo Airline security officials who took him to the Sahar police station.
A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against him under Indian Penal Code section 336 (act endangering life or personnel safety of others ) and section 25 of the Aircraft Rules, 1937 (smoking in aircraft) and further probe was on, the official said.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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