An Indigo Airlines passenger heading for Saudi Arabia was placed under arrest at the Mumbai airport by the airline's security staff. Mohammed Ammruddin, the suspect, was taken into custody after it was discovered that he was smoking a beedi (cigarette) in the Indigo flight's lavatory.
An Indigo passenger has been placed under arrest, Due to smoking a beedi inside the aircraft's lavatory. When a 42-year-old man was seen smoking a "beedi" on Tuesday at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, he was immediately taken into custody.
The culprit was identified as Mohammed Fakruddin Mohammed Ammuruddin, a construction worker by profession who was on an Indigo trip from Delhi to Riyadh via Mumbai. He went into a bathroom during the flight's domestic leg and smoked a beedi.
The strong beedi smell made the crew members suspicious, and when they investigated, they discovered the beedi within the toilet. When the plane landed in Mumbai, Ammruddin was questioned and admitted to smoking beedi. Sahar Police then took him into custody.
He told the police official that he had cleared the security check at the Delhi airport by hiding a lighter and a beedi in his pants pockets while being questioned. In accordance with the appropriate sections of the Aircraft Act and Section 336 of the IPC, he has been charged and is being held in custody.
Ammuruddin's able to bring a lighter and beedi on board has sparked worries about flight security in light of the occurrence. He used the lighter, which is expressly forbidden on airplanes, to go through pre-boarding security procedures.
In a related incident, a 56-year-old man was detained at Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport in May of last year for smoking beedi during a flight. Crew members on the airline discovered the man, Praveen Kumar, smoking in the restroom after he boarded the Akasa Air trip from Ahmedabad. Kumar is from the Marwar district of Rajasthan.
It was his first flight; he had told the cops, and he didn't know the regulations.
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