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A 63-year-old Swedish national was arrested in Mumbai on Thursday for allegedly molesting an IndiGo staff while in an inebriated condition while returning from Bangkok.

News agency ANI gave information in this regard.

The accused, Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg, was handed over to the Mumbai Police by the airline staff on Thursday at the Mumbai airport on board the flight.

The accused, Klaus Erik Harald Jonas Westberg, was handed over to the Mumbai Police by the airline staff after the flight landed at the Mumbai airport on Thursday.

According to the Times of India, the passenger had started misbehaving while serving the food.

He kept doing this till the flight landed.

During this, a 24-year-old cabin crew member also alerted the captain and read out a red warning card to Westberg.

Describing the incident to the daily, a cabin crew member said, "The problem started when I informed Westberg (seated on 28-E), who was intoxicated, that there was no seafood on board. I offered him chicken." Served and asked for his ATM card to pay through POS machine. But on the pretext of swiping the card, the passenger held my hand."

He said, "After doing this I pulled myself up and asked him to put the pin in the machine. But this time he crossed his limits and started disrespecting me in front of other passengers. When I shouted that he was disrespecting me So he went to his seat and sat down. 

However, the counsel for the accused said that he was suffering from health problems and his body was trembling.

According to the Times of India, the lawyer said, "They cannot hold anything without help. When they touched the cabin crew, they tried to hold the POS payment card machine. He did not touch it intentionally."

According to officials, this is the eighth unruly airline passenger arrested in India in the last three months.

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