Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia on August 11 ordered an investigation after an old video of a passenger smoking a cigarette inside a SpiceJet aircraft, went viral on social media.
The video shows a man lying down on passenger seats and lighting a cigarette and smoking it while posing for the camera. The airline said that the incident was from January this year, when the airline filed an F.I.R. and barred the passenger from flying aboard its aircraft for 15 days under the rules for "unruly passengers". SpiceJet also said that none of its crew was aware of the act.
“The matter came to the airline’s notice on January 24, 2022 through social media posts”SpiceJet
