{"id":648770,"date":"2025-10-04T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648770"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:50:55","slug":"mid-air-scuffle-with-up-mla-lands-passenger-in-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mid-air-scuffle-with-up-mla-lands-passenger-in-police-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-air scuffle with UP MLA lands passenger in police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW: A scuffle broke out on a Delhi-Lucknow flight mid-air between an Amethi MLA and a passenger over use of cuss words, authorities said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Tuesday on Air India flight AI-837, when Amethi&#8217;s Gauriganj MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh objected to a passenger, Samad Ali, allegedly using foul language while talking on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MLA, despite objections from fellow travellers, the man continued shouting, forcing him to intervene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW: A scuffle broke out on a Delhi-Lucknow flight mid-air between an Amethi MLA and a passenger over use of cuss words, authorities said on Wednesday. The incident happened on Tuesday on Air India flight AI-837, when Amethi&#8217;s Gauriganj MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh objected to a passenger, Samad Ali, allegedly using foul language while talking on the phone. According to the MLA, despite objections from fellow travellers, the man continued shouting, forcing him to intervene.<\/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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648770","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=648770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}