'Captain Rohit Mateti ko mera salaam': Kunal Kamra hails IndiGo pilot

New Delhi, Januay 31

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Kunal Kamra on Friday hailed IndiGo captain Rohit Mateti who conveyed his anguish to the airline management for not consulting him before announcing a six-month ban on the comedian for heckling Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami.

“Captain Rohit Mateti ko mera salaam (I hail Captain Rohit Mateti),” Kamra said on Twitter.

Captain Rohit Mateti ko mera salaam
🙏🙏🙏

— Kunal Kamra (@kunalkamra88) January 31, 2020

In a letter to the IndiGo management on Thursday, Mateti had said he was “disheartened” to learn that Kamra was banned from flying purely on the basis of social media posts and that though his behaviour was “unsavoury”, it was not qualifying of a level-1 unruly passenger”.

IndiGo on Tuesday suspended stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra from flying with it for six months after he allegedly heckled journalist Arnab Goswami aboard its Mumbai-Lucknow flight.

Air India also suspended Kamra from flying with it until further notice, the national carrier said in a statement.

Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri took notice of the incident and “advised” other airlines in India to impose similar restriction on Kamra, stating “offensive behaviour designed to provoke & create disturbance inside an aircraft is absolutely unacceptable & endangers safety of air travellers”.

Kamra allegedly heckled Goswami, the editor of Republic TV, on IndiGo’s Mumbai-Lucknow (6E5317) flight on Tuesday. — PTI