Two inebriated passengers who arrived from the UAE allegedly abused other passengers and assaulted a CISF officer. But the police let them go easily.
Two inebriated passengers who arrived from the UAE allegedly abused other passengers and assaulted a CISF officer at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport on Saturday. But the police let them go easily.
It was only after the CISF complained that the police went looking for them but could not find them. One of the accused surrendered on Wednesday.
Ahmed Mohammed al-Jalak, an Egypt-born British national, and Madathil Raghu, a UAE-based businessman from Kerala, sparked off a drunken brawl at the airport on Saturday. CISF personnel impounded their passports and handed them over to the local police, but the two were out on bail after being charged with drunken and riotous behaviour, simple hurt and illegal detention.
CISF commandant KCS Rai petitioned DGP Jacob Punnoose on Tuesday, blaming the police for slapping minor charges against the duo. The DGP put an assistant commissioner on the duo’s trail.
Police raided a club in Thiruvananthapuram and Raghu’s house in Kollam on Tuesday looking for the two and influential friends who might have bailed them out. Al-Jalak surrendered on Wednesday but Raghu is still at large. Al-Jalak is supposed to return to the UAE on Monday. It is rumoured a minister’s son helped the accused escape but al-Jalak denied knowing any minister’s son.
Chief minister VS Achuthanandan said, “The allegation will be looked into”. The CISF complaint says the two passengers beat up inspector Subrato Chatterjee, the shift in-charge at the airport. They also “abused every passenger and staff of various agencies at the airport…and beat up all those trying to tackle them”. But the FIR, filed in a court on Tuesday, does not mention that CISF personnel were manhandled.
“The people of Kerala want to know who influenced the police to manipulate the CISF’s FIR. Only petty charges were framed against the accused,” opposition leader Oommen Chandy told reporters.
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