IndiGo Airline: A 62-year-old Swedish citizen allegedly molested a 24-year-old cabin crew while intoxicated on a Bangkok-Mumbai IndiGo Airlines flight. Not only this, he assaulted a fellow passenger and created a ruckus in the flight. The man has been identified as Klaas Erik Harald Jonas Vestberg. Mumbai Police has arrested the accused. The entire incident took place on Indigo flight 6E-1052.
Actually, Westberg molested the air hostess while serving food. When the flight attendant informed him that there was no vegetarian food on board, the accused prepared to have a chicken dish and when the air hostess approached him with the POS machine to collect the money, he pretended to swipe the card. held hands in the wrong manner. The woman told the Mumbai police that when the air hostess protested, Westberg got up from her seat and molested the IndiGo staff in front of all the passengers.
Air hostess charge
The air hostess alleged that later the man misbehaved with the staff and other passengers. The accused was arrested on March 30 on his arrival at the Mumbai airport. He was produced in the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate Court and granted bail. This was the eighth unruly passenger arrest in India in the last three months and the fifth incident of molestation reported between 2017 and 2023.
Earlier on March 26, an intoxicated person had vomited in the Indigo Guwahati-Delhi flight. On March 22, two passengers on an IndiGo flight from Dubai to Mumbai later started drinking. When an attempt was made to stop him from drinking alcohol, he created quite a commotion in the flight. At the same time, on November 26, 2022, an elderly female passenger was urinated on by a drunk man on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi.
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