{"id":510778,"date":"2022-08-01T12:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510778"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T06:47:25","slug":"bengaluru-man-sues-airline-for-not-loading-bag-with-power-bank-loses-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-man-sues-airline-for-not-loading-bag-with-power-bank-loses-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Man sues airline for not loading bag with power bank, loses case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A Bengaluru man sued IndiGo Airlines after his check-in bag carrying his scouts uniform, which he was to wear representing Karntaka government at an awards ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan, was not loaded on the plane because of the presence of a power bank. But he lost the case as a consumer court ruled that travelling with a power bank in check-in luggage instead of cabin bag was a violation of aviation rules.<br \/>\nOn December 5, 2016, AN Mahesh, 46, then chairman of Jungle Lodges and Resorts Ltd in Bengaluru, boarded the IndiGo airlines flight at Kempegowda International Airport to fly to Delhi. He was scheduled to attend a ceremony organised by the Indian government at Rashtrapati Bhavan as he was a special invitee to scouts, guides, rovers, rangers and adult leaders\u2019 award presentation. As per protocol, he was supposed to attend the ceremony in his scouts uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A Bengaluru man sued IndiGo Airlines after his check-in bag carrying his scouts uniform, which he was to wear representing Karntaka government at an awards ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan, was not loaded on the plane because of the presence of a power bank. But he lost the case as a consumer court ruled that travelling with a power bank in check-in luggage instead of cabin bag was a violation of aviation rules. On December 5, 2016, AN Mahesh, 46, then chairman of Jungle Lodges and Resorts Ltd in Bengaluru, boarded the IndiGo airlines flight at Kempegowda International Airport to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510778","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}