Drunk Swedish Passenger Arrested For Molesting IndiGo Cabin Crew Member

A Swedish national has recently got arrested in Mumbai for allegedly molesting a cabin crew member onboard an indigo flight from Bangkok.

Therefore, the police stated that the accused has been identified as, Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg (63). Later, The Swedish national was released on bail. Where the police said that the chargesheet has been filed and that if the accused doesn’t attend the trial, he will be declared an absconder and a lookout circular (LOC) will be issued. Westberg has been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 323 (causing hurt), 354 (outraging modesty), 509 (for word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), and under Aircraft Rules 1937 sections 23 (intoxication) and 29 (acts likely to imperil the safety of an aircraft).

The accused was arrested on Thursday after a complaint by IndiGo Airlines and was produced in the Andheri court on Friday and granted bail the same day, officials said.

A chargesheet was filed by the police in the Andheri court on Friday. Police stated that they have started further investigations into the case.

This is the 8th unruly airline passenger arrested in India in the past three months, according to officials.

On March 23, Mumbai’s Sahar Police booked two IndiGo flyers traveling from Dubai to Mumbai for allegedly being drunk and misbehaving with the crew, police said earlier in the month.
The arrested passengers were identified as Dattatreya Bapardekar & John George D’Souza.

“Two Indigo flyers have been booked under section 336 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) & sections 21,22 and 25 of Aircraft rules for being drunk & misbehaving with the crew. Both were arrested formally but as the sections were bailable, they were granted bail from the police station itself.”