IndiGo Staff Manhandle A Passenger, Airline Fires The Person Who Records The Incident

In a video that has gone viral on social media, an IndiGo ground staff is seen manhandling and dragging a passenger at Delhi Airport on October 15 after getting into an altercation with him at the time when the passenger was boarding a bus.

On October 15 after alighting from the Airbus A-320, Rajiv Katiyal got into an altercation with some IndiGo ground staffers over some issue and he allegedly abused them.  Two to three IndiGo ground staffers stopped Katyal from boarding the bus which was taking passengers to the terminal. They then manhandled him and dragged him on the tarmac for over a minute. An IndiGo employee, Montu Kalra, who was at the site tried to intervene and shot a video of his colleagues manhandling the passenger.

In the video, a passenger is first seen being stopped from entering a coach, then pulled back by a ground staff. Another airline employee is seen restraining the traveller.

Instead of acting against the employees who thrashed passenger Katiyal, IndiGo sacked Kalra whose wife is pregnant and who needs the job desperately for his growing family. After the video went viral on Tuesday, Aviation minister Jayant spoke to IndiGo founder Rahul Bhatia and sought a detailed report on this issue.