Passenger arrested in Surat for smoking cigarate in washroom of flight

Surat: A complaint has been filed by Indigo airlines staffer against a passenger at Dumas police station here for smoking in flight. An accused has been arrested in this case.

Laltu Sukumar Ghosh works as a supervisor in private company near Umargam in South Gujarat. He lives in Nadia district of West Bengal. He had boarded Indigo flight number 6E-722 on Wednesday from Kolkata to Surat.

According to complaint filed with Dumas police, Laltu had smoked a cigarate in washroom of flight.

As some smoke was detected outside the washroom, an Indigo staffer checked Laltu and found him in possession of cigarate. As soon as it was confirmed that Laltu had lighted a cigarate in washroom, a decision was taken to file police complaint against him.

Accordingly, Sagar Pandit Badgujar, an employee of Indigo at Surat airport filed complaint against Laltu under aircraft act 1934, aircraft rules 1937 rule number 25 and IPC section 336, following which Laltu was arrested by police.

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