{"id":494692,"date":"2022-05-30T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494692"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:34:41","slug":"dgca-imposes-rs-5-lakh-fine-on-indigo-for-denying-boarding-to-specially-abled-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-imposes-rs-5-lakh-fine-on-indigo-for-denying-boarding-to-specially-abled-child\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA imposes Rs 5 lakh fine on IndiGo for denying boarding to specially abled child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday said it has imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on IndiGo airline for denying boarding to a specially abled child at Ranchi airport on May 7. <\/p>\n<p>IndiGo had on May 9 said the boy was denied permission to board the Ranchi-Hyderabad flight as he was \u201cvisibly in panic\u201d. As the boy was prohibited from boarding, his parents \u2013 who were accompanying him \u2013 also decided not to enter the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA had on May 9 formed a three-member team to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been observed that the handling of the special child by the Indigo ground staff was deficient and ended up exacerbating the situation,&#8221; said a statement by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday said it has imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on IndiGo airline for denying boarding to a specially abled child at Ranchi airport on May 7. IndiGo had on May 9 said the boy was denied permission to board the Ranchi-Hyderabad flight as he was \u201cvisibly in panic\u201d. As the boy was prohibited from boarding, his parents \u2013 who were accompanying him \u2013 also decided not to enter the plane. The DGCA had on May 9 formed a three-member team to investigate the incident. &#8220;It has been observed that the handling of the special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}