New Delhi: Last week, Russian airline Aeroflot refused to take four Kashmiri students to Turkey from Delhi's IGI airport on flimsy grounds. According to the victims, airlines didn't give any reason but asked the quartet to travel with Turkish Airlines before throwing them out of the terminal building.
The students have filed complaints with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and Aeroflot. Reacting to the incident, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has termed the act of the airline as fishy.
One of the fliers - Mohd Iqbal Rather, a student of Aligarh Muslim University - told Mail Today: "We reached Delhi airport on Thursday around 1.30 am to catch Aeroflot flight number SU 233. When we went to the airline counter, officials told us that we can't travel to Istanbul with Aeroflot. When we asked the reason, they didn't tell anything. Later, they asked their colleagues to take us out of the terminal building. We were humiliated despite the fact that we had proper visa, tickets and other documents."
03/08/15 Ankur Sharma/Mail Today/India Today
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The students have filed complaints with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and Aeroflot. Reacting to the incident, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has termed the act of the airline as fishy.
One of the fliers - Mohd Iqbal Rather, a student of Aligarh Muslim University - told Mail Today: "We reached Delhi airport on Thursday around 1.30 am to catch Aeroflot flight number SU 233. When we went to the airline counter, officials told us that we can't travel to Istanbul with Aeroflot. When we asked the reason, they didn't tell anything. Later, they asked their colleagues to take us out of the terminal building. We were humiliated despite the fact that we had proper visa, tickets and other documents."
03/08/15 Ankur Sharma/Mail Today/India Today
