Kolkata: A day after the shocking video of two IndiGo staff beating up a passenger emerged, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said, "Whatever is required to ensure passenger safety, we will surely undertake it."
The minister's assurance during his visit to Kolkata on Demonetisation Day is not to passengers alone. In fact, he stopped short of saying, "passengers beware".
After talks with various stake holders "we have put in place in India a very innovative, one-of-a-kind, new-to-the-world, 'national no-fly list'. If safety is compromised, we will disembark passengers and restrict them from flying", he said.
Montu Kalra, the man sacked, has been shouting himself hoarse saying he was not involved in the incident. IndiGo has said it was Kalra who instigated his colleagues into physically stopping Mr Katiyal from boarding a bus after an argument.
Meanwhile, the airline has put out a detailed four-page defence in which it said its staff had followed the Standard Operating Procedure and acted in self-defence, but was attacked first by the passenger.
Earlier this year, Air India filed complaints against Shiv Sena lawmaker Ravindra Gaikwad after a fiasco with its staff.
Gaikwad too filed complaints with police, saying he had been insulted, pushed and yelled at during the confrontation.
The minister's assurance during his visit to Kolkata on Demonetisation Day is not to passengers alone. In fact, he stopped short of saying, "passengers beware".
After talks with various stake holders "we have put in place in India a very innovative, one-of-a-kind, new-to-the-world, 'national no-fly list'. If safety is compromised, we will disembark passengers and restrict them from flying", he said.
Montu Kalra, the man sacked, has been shouting himself hoarse saying he was not involved in the incident. IndiGo has said it was Kalra who instigated his colleagues into physically stopping Mr Katiyal from boarding a bus after an argument.
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Meanwhile, the airline has put out a detailed four-page defence in which it said its staff had followed the Standard Operating Procedure and acted in self-defence, but was attacked first by the passenger.
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Earlier this year, Air India filed complaints against Shiv Sena lawmaker Ravindra Gaikwad after a fiasco with its staff.
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Gaikwad too filed complaints with police, saying he had been insulted, pushed and yelled at during the confrontation.
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