Unruly passenger on IndiGo flight sent to jail

Manoj Virkhare, the drunk passenger who created a ruckus in the IndiGo flight 6E 137, was presented in court by Sonegaon police station on Wednesday and awarded magisterial custody remand (MCR) for seven days.

Virkhare, in a drunken state, caused a lot of commotion on the IndiGo Delhi-Nagpur-Pune flight on Tuesday evening when it landed at Nagpur

Airport. He had boarded the flight in an inebriated condition. Both airlines and airport officials were tight lipped about the whole incident. They even denied the fact that the passenger had been taken into custody. The airline manager for the city refused comment on the incident. Even on Wednesday the airline remained unavailable for comments.

Dileep Bhagde, a co-passenger, had claimed that the authorities were not very keen on taking the matter to the CISF or police. "For some reason, they were trying to protect the drunk passenger," he said.