`Yadav went inside to pacify passengers on diverted flight’

"How many times your minister goes to the aircraft to pacify passengers," the bench told government counsel S K Kaul after senior advocate Prag P Tripathi read out the transcription of the communication between officials of the IGI airport and Patna airport about Yadav’s presence inside the plane and the reasons for the flight’s delay.

Tripathi appearing for a petitioner, who had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a probe into the whole issue, said the communication between the officials of the two airports established that Yadav had gone inside the plane to pacify the passengers, who were protesting the delay in the flight.

The court said "things are becoming curious on every day of the hearing ….we want to know what instruction he (Yadav) gave to the pilot."

The court in a verbal direction also asked the government counsel to furnish details about the delay in the Indian Airlines 7 pm Delhi-Mumbai flight on September 29 under identical circumstances.