Mumbai jeweller is first on no-fly list

New Delhi, May 20

A Mumbai-based jeweller, who created a hijack scare in a Jet Airways flight in October last year, has become the first person to be put on the ‘National No Fly List’, eight months after it was unveiled.

Incidentally, he was also the first to be booked under the stringent Anti-Hijacking Act which had replaced the vintage law of 1982.

Birju Kishore Salla (37) was arrested in October 2017 by the police following an emergency landing by the Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways plane at the Ahmedabad airport after the pilot was alerted about a note about hijackers and a bomb, found in the plane’s washroom by the cabin crew.

The then Union Civil Aviation Minister, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, had advised the airlines to put him on the no-fly list, in addition to other statutory criminal action.

Under the revised civil aviation requirement, a passenger can be placed under three categories of unruly behaviour, with category three bearing the harshest punishment. Salla has been placed under the third category. — PTI

Irked by flight delay, ‘tipsy’ man hurts self

Chennai: Irked by three-hour delay in the take off of a Mumbai-bound Air India flight, a 37-year-old man, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, injured himself using a pen after a duel with airline officials on Sunday. He told the officials that he ran the risk of missing his connecting flight at Mumbai and in a fit of rage, he took out a pen and punched his stomach. He was taken to a hospital within the airport premises for treatment and the flight later departed without him. PTI