In yet another mid-air horror, a passenger in an inebriated condition allegedly tried to open the emergency door flap of the Delhi-Bengaluru IndiGo flight. The Bengaluru police arrested the passenger after the flight landed.

The incident of unruly behaviour on flight happened in flight number 6E 308 which took off at around 7:56 am on Friday from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.

The IndiGo Airlines released a statement stating that the drunk passenger, aged 40 years, in the Bengaluru-bound flight tried to open the emergency door flap in the mid-air. On noticing this violation, the crew on board alerted the captain and the passenger was appropriately cautioned. There was no compromise on the safe operation of the said flight, it added.

Once the flight landed in Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), the crew handed the accused to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel who are currently interrogating him.

The police said that they are currently interrogating him and will take necessary action thereafter. The accused is identified as R Pratheek who is a native of Nawabganj in Kanpur.

This is not the first time that the airlines are witnessing the unruly behaviour of passengers. Earlier this month, a 63-year-old Swedish national who was travelling on a Bangkok to Mumbai flight allegedly molested the 24-year-old cabin crew on an Indigo flight.

The Mumbai Police arrested him upon the arrival of the flight and was later produced in the Andheri court. However, he is out on bail.

Six people were reportedly arrested in 2022 for causing chaos on planes. Reportedly, eight arrests have already been made in connection with incidents involving unruly passengers in the first three months of 2023.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday hit out at NCERT textbooks deletions and criticised the decision to remove several chapters from the syllabus including Mughals.

The CPIM leader said one cannot reject historical facts which are inconvenient by just cutting them out from textbooks. In a Facebook post, Vijayan said the decision to remove a few chapters and sections from the NCERT textbooks with a political intention is not only a denial of history but also objectionable.

The Kerala CM also pointed out the removal of the sections on Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination and the RSS ban from the Class 12 political science textbook. He slammed the government and said the aim of such measures is to complete the saffronisation of the textbooks.

On the removal of Mughal chapters from History textbooks, Vijayan said the move will leave a study about India’s medieval history incomplete.

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He continued that the medieval history of India has always been an area of distortion and by removing such portions, NCERT has now whitewashed the fake history manufactured by Sangh Parivar.

The National Council of Education Research and Training on Tuesday deleted texts related to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination and his assassin Nathuram Godse, Hindu-Muslim unity, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ban from the Class 12 syllabus.

NCERT chief Dinesh Saklani said the move did not happen overnight and should not be blown out of proportion. +He said some deletions were not announced in its rationalisation exercise last year and all changes will be carried out in the new textbooks.

Earlier this week, NCERT removed chapters on Mughals from History textbooks. Following criticism on social media over the same, NCERT issued a notification and clarified the chapters were removed due to the overlapping of similar chapters in the syllabus in lower and higher classes.

Uttarakhand Police arrest cricket coach over sexual harassment charges

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Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday night arrested a cricket coach in Dehradun for sexually harassing three cricketers, including a minor, being trained by him. He was detained by the police soon after being discharged from Rishikesh’s AIIMS Hospital, where he was receiving treatment for an alleged suicide attempt.

Narendra Shah, a suspended office bearer of the Cricket Association, used to run his own cricket training academy named Little Masters Cricket Club. Three cricketers who were training under him accused him of sexually harassing them. Following the allegation, he consumed poison in an attempt to commit suicide.

Circle Officer Pankaj Gairola said he was earlier admitted to Doon Hospital, however, was later referred to AIIMS-Rishikesh after he complained of abdomen pain after the suicide attempt. The police nabbed Shah on Thursday night after he was discharged from the emergency ward of the hospital.

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After an alleged audio call of the accused speaking to the players vulgarly leaked on social media, the Uttarakhand Police have already filed charges against him under the relevant sections of the POCSO Act and SC-ST Act.

As soon as his lewd conversations went viral on social media, the 53-year-old coach made an attempt at suicide and was taken to the hospital for treatment. The three girls who filed a complaint against Shah, accusing him of sexual harassment, have provided 164 statements to the police.

Meanwhile, Usha Negi, former chairperson of Uttarakhand State Commission For Protection of Child Rights urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BCCI President Roger Binny, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take strict action against Shah, who has also coached woman cricketer Sneh Rana.

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