Swedish man arrested for alleged sexual assault on Bangkok-Mumbai flight claims mental health issues

The lawyer of a Swedish man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a member of the cabin crew on a Bangkok to Mumbai flight claims he has psychological health problems and did not mean to the touch the girl.
Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg reportedly molested a stewardess on IndiGo flight 6E-1052 from Thailand to India on Thursday, the Indian Express reported. He was arrested by Mumbai Police once the aeroplane touched down and passengers disembarked.
The Swedish man became unruly as the cabin crew started distributing the meals.
The victim told the press the sixty three yr previous seemed to be intoxicated. She said…
“The drawback started once I informed Westberg, who was drunk, that there was no seafood onboard. I served him rooster meals and asked for his ATM card to make a fee via the POS (point of sale) machine. On the pretext of swiping the cardboard, the passenger held my hand. I pulled it again and requested him to enter the cardboard PIN.”
It was at this stage, the alleged touchy–feely Swedish man reportedly groped the 24 year previous cabin crew member, which was witnessed by three of her colleagues.
The victim protested and the flight captain then became involved, issuing the passenger a red warning card for being unruly.
Upon touchdown at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, police were referred to as and a case was registered on the complaint of the cabin crew staffer.
Subsequently, Westberg was arrested and reportedly kept hurling expletives throughout his journey, prompting the cabin crew to declare him an unruly passenger.
Guilt-free assaulted one other passenger who confronted him.
Westberg’s lawyer, Prabhakar Tripathi, claimed that his client has psychological health issues and was not in command of his actions. Tripathi said…
“He can not hold something with out assist. He tried to carry the POS cost card machine when he touched the cabin crew. He did not touch her deliberately.”
The Swedish man’s case is the latest in a string of incidents involving unruly passengers on flights to and from India. In November 2022, an Indian man named Shankar Mishra was banned from Air India for 4 months after urinating on his co-passenger during a flight.
In January 2023, a 21-year-old Indian pupil named Arya Vohra was banned from American Airlines after he urinated on his co-passenger throughout a flight from New York to Delhi.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has referred to as for stricter measures to deal with unruly passengers, including felony prosecution and compensation for airlines. The IATA reported a 50% improve in unruly passenger incidents in 2022, with alcohol being a significant think about many of those cases..