The lawyer of a Swedish man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a member of the cabin crew on a Bangkok to Mumbai flight claims he has psychological well being issues and did not mean to the touch the woman.
Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg reportedly molested a stewardess on IndiGo flight 6E-1052 from Thailand to India on Thursday, the Indian Express reported. He was arrested by Mumbai Police once the aeroplane touched down and passengers disembarked.
The Swedish man became unruly because the cabin crew started distributing the meals.
The victim told the press the sixty three year old seemed to be intoxicated. She said…
“The drawback started when I knowledgeable Westberg, who was drunk, that there was no seafood onboard. I served him chicken meals and requested for his ATM card to make a payment via the POS (point of sale) machine. On the pretext of swiping the card, the passenger held my hand. I pulled it back and asked him to enter the card PIN.”
It was at this stage, the alleged touchy–feely Swedish man reportedly groped the 24 12 months outdated cabin crew member, which was witnessed by three of her colleagues.
The victim protested and the flight captain then turned involved, issuing the passenger a pink warning card for being unruly.
Upon landing at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, police have been known as and a case was registered on the criticism of the cabin crew staffer.
Subsequently, Westberg was arrested and reportedly saved hurling expletives throughout his journey, prompting the cabin crew to declare him an unruly passenger.
Westberg then allegedly assaulted another passenger who confronted him.
Expires , Prabhakar Tripathi, claimed that his shopper has mental well being issues and was not in control of his actions. Tripathi said…
“He can’t maintain anything with out assist. He tried to hold the POS cost card machine when he touched the cabin crew. He did not touch her deliberately.”
The Swedish man’s case is the most recent in a string of incidents involving unruly passengers on flights to and from India. In November 2022, an Indian man named Shankar Mishra was banned from Air India for 4 months after urinating on his co-passenger during a flight.
In Replicate , a 21-year-old Indian pupil named Arya Vohra was banned from American Airlines after he urinated on his co-passenger during a flight from New York to Delhi.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for stricter measures to take care of unruly passengers, together with felony prosecution and compensation for airlines. The IATA reported a 50% enhance in unruly passenger incidents in 2022, with alcohol being a major factor in many of these cases..