Air India files 2 police complaints against Sena MP, mulls 'no-fly list' for unruly passengers

NEW DELHI: Taking a tough stand, Air India has filed multiple police complaints against Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who allegedly beat up a staffer at least 25 times on Thursday inside an aircraft after reaching Delhi from Pune. AI, said a spokesman, is also “examining the creation of a no fly list for unruly passengers”.
AI has filed a complaint for assault against the MP and another complaint for forcibly holding up the aircraft for about 45 minutes by refusing to alight from it.
The 60-year-old AI duty manager, who was assaulted by the MP Ravindra Gaikwad, has also lodged a complaint with the IGI Airport against the law-maker. In his complaint to the airline, Sukumar has alleged that the MP abused him; ripped off his sweater buttons; broke his spectacles; beat him with sandals and humiliated him in front of the other staffers. The MP even boasted to eletronic media that he wanted to throw Sukumar off the plane but did not do so when others requested him to let the “bal bachcedaar aadmi” go.
This latest VVIP shocker happened on Thursday when Ravindra Gaikwad, Lok Sabha MP from Osmanabad in Maharasthra, flew from Pune to Delhi on Air India’s flight AI 852. He was angry at being given an economy class seat in a flight that did not have business class.