A 56-year-old man was detained at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) for smoking in midair whereas on board an Akasa Air flight with a vacation spot of Bengaluru.
The airline’s obligation supervisor reported the incident to KIA police as quickly as they arrived on the airport. He was accused of placing different passengers’ lives in peril.
Praveen Kumar, the defendant, is a local of the Marwar district of Rajasthan. The airline crew found him smoking in the bathroom after he boarded the flight in Ahmedabad. Later, Kumar was taken to Bengaluru Central Jail, the place he allegedly informed the police that it was his first journey ever and that he was unaware of the rules.
TOI quoted, “I regularly travel by train and smoke inside the toilet. Thinking I could do the same here, I decided to smoke a beedi,” the accused informed police.
(Also Read: Karnataka CM race: Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar meet former Congress president Rahul Gandhi)
A prime police official informed the Times of India that failing to seek out cigarettes throughout safety frisking is a big error.
“They get detected easily. The only explanation for such incident is failure in frisking,” the official stated.
Two folks had been arrested for smoking cigarette within the plane, earlier this yr.
