Woman 'bites' CISF constable in 'fit of anger' after fight with co-passengers on Pune-Delhi flight

Chandigarh, August 19

In what can be called as a ‘violent outburst’, a 44-year-old woman allegedly bit and slapped a CISF constable after a fight with her co-passengers on a Pune-Delhi flight, according to several media reports.

According to a report in Indian Express, the police have booked the woman, a resident of Wakad in Pune, on charges of causing disturbance in government work under sections 132, 121 (1) and 351 (2) (3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on Saturday after the 26-year-old CISF constable, also a woman, lodged a complaint.

The incident took place on Saturday morning when the woman, a homemaker, and her husband, a software engineer, were travelling to Delhi for a relative’s funeral.

The woman had an altercation with a brother-sister duo over seating arrangements and assaulted the two fellow passengers, the report added.

The crew of the private airline intervened in the situation and informed the CISF officials of the unruly passenger.

The two woman CISF constables tried to defuse the situation, but the Wakad resident reportedly bit hand of one of them ‘in a fit of anger’, causing an injury.

As the situation worsened, the constables had to restrain the woman and finally remove her and her husband from the flight. She was handed over to the airport police.

“We let her go after issuing a notice asking her to join our probe as and when summoned by the investigating officer,” senior inspector Ajay Sankeshwari was quoted as saying by a TOI report.

The brother-sister duo involved in the altercation were allowed to travel to Delhi, it added.