Teacher misses uncle’s funeral after 3-hr flight delay

Bengaluru: A Bengaluru schoolteacher headed to Rajasthan for the funeral of her maternal uncle missed seeing the face of her family patriarch for the last time due to flight delay of over three hours at Kempegowda International Airport on Thursday. She has vowed never to take the airline again.

Ritu Kumari Jain, 38, a private high school teacher and resident of HSR Layout, on Wednesday received the news that her maternal uncle, a healthy man of 58, had suddenly passed away at their native village in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan. “He was the patriarch of my wife’s family and beloved to all the members.