Kunal Kamra had pulled off a self-embarrassing stunt in January this year on-board a Mumbai-Lucknow Indigo flight, where he heckled senior journalist Arnab Goswami. While Goswami maintained his composure and remained glued to his laptop, Kamra had severe verbal diarrhoea and was borderline abusive on a commercial flight, in complete violence of DGCA guidelines.
This caused a storm on social media, and almost everyone called for a ban to be imposed on Kunal Kamra from flying all flights operational in India. Subsequently, Indigo, SpiceJet, GoAir and Air India banned Kunal Kamra from flying on their aircrafts. Only a few days ago, even Air Vistara imposed a ban on Kamra, who was otherwise regularly flying the airline after the others had banned him. The lunatic was carrying a ‘no-ban’ by Vistara as a batch of honour and validation for his unruly and psychotic behaviour.
Kunal Kamra had also petitioned the Delhi High Court to order Indigo airlines to lift the ban imposed on him. In the notice which he had sent to the airline, Kamra’s lawyer stated that his client has suffered “mental pain and agony” due to “illegal, arbitrary and high-handed decision” of the airline, and further demanded Rs. 25 lakh in compensation and an immediate revocation of the fly-ban.
The Delhi High Court however, today, threw out Kamra’s plea for revocation of the fly ban, and also scolded him for his unruly behaviour on-board the Indigo flight. “This kind of behaviour certainly cannot be permitted,” the court observed. Having been scolded by the court, Kunal Kamra is now set to petition an appellate body to lift the ban imposed on him for his own lowlife behaviour.
“Offensive behaviour designed to provoke and create disturbance inside an aircraft is absolutely unacceptable and endangers safety of air travellers. We are left with no option but to advise other airlines to impose similar restrictions on the person concerned,” Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had posted on Twitter back then.
Although an extremely vile and uncouth individual, it is at the very least expected that Kunal Kamra will try knocking some sense into himself and accept the fact that what he did to Arnab Goswami was outright uncivil. It also serves as a reminder that only because he claims to be a comedian, he cannot go around behaving like an unfunny clown at any place of his choosing.