A Bangaluru-based vascular surgeon was forcibly offloaded from a IndiGo flight, bound for Bangaluru from Lucknow, after he complained of mosquitoes onboard flight 6E 541 at Lucknow Airport.

As per media reports, Dr Saurabh Rai was forcibly removed from the flight on Monday evening after he complained about the presence of mosquitoes inside the aircraft to the crew.

In a video posted on social media, Rai alleged that rather than paying attention to my complaint, he was manhandled by the crew members of the aircraft and later offloaded.

Rai also added that after being removed from the aircraft, the airline officials asked him to furnish an apology letter.

In their defence to the incident, the budget-carrier in a reply to a Twitter in a statement said Dr Saurabh Rai had used threatening language, while speaking with the flight attendants and was offloaded for his unruly behaviour.

The carrier further said Rai also instigated other passengers to damage the aircraft, using words such as ”hijack”.

“As matter escalated after the closure of the aircraft doors, he attempted to instigate other passengers on board to damage the aircraft and used words such as ‘hijack’. Hence, keeping in mind applicable safety protocols crew apprised pilot-in-command, who decided to offload him, said the IndiGo airlines.

At IndiGo, there is no compromise on matters of safety and security. Further, we would like to mention here that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has prohibited disinfectant fumigation in aircraft while passengers are onboard, added the airlines in their reply.

This is not the first time the  budget-airlines, IndiGo, has been news for all the wrong reasons.

Last year, a video went viral showing IndiGo ground staff allegedly assaulting a passenger. The video was captured by another ground staff. The issue was also raised in Parliament.

In November last year, Olympic champion PV Sindhu had slammed IndiGo airlines ground staff on social media for allegedly misbehaving with her during her flight from Hyderabad to Mumbai. World number 2 shuttler, Sindhu, had said that she had experienced an ‘unsatisfactory’ treatment en route her flight to Mumbai.