Worried over security of VIPs and movement of money in poll-bound Bihar, the Election Commission has written to Civil Aviation Ministry to deploy trained security personnel and baggage scanners at the unguarded state hangar in Patna.
The passengers were stopped by the crew members for consuming alcohol and they apologised in writing for the incident.
The incident happened when the air hostess asked the lawmaker not to throw the leftover food in the aisle.
TMC asks why the flight was made to hover in the sky despite reporting a fuel shortage.
A 61-year-old cardiac patient Virender Rai, who was being flown to Delhi, has been rushed to the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon immediately after the incident.
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