Anurag Kashyap refuses to fly IndiGo to show solidarity with comedian Kunal Kamra

NEW DELHI: After IndiGo Airline barred Standup Comedian Kunal Kamra for 6 months for heckling TV journalist Arnab Goswami on a flight, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap refused to fly IndiGo to show solidarity with the comedian. Instead, he chose Airvistara to arrive at Kolkata.

“I will wake up at 4 am but I will not fly IndiGo,” Kashyap told The Telegraph.

Not until “Kunal Kamra is allowed to fly.”

Popular stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra on Saturday has slapped a legal notice on IndiGo airlines, seeking an unconditional apology and compensation of Rs. 25 lakh for causing him mental harassment. He also asked for the removal of the 6-month ban placed on him by the domestic carrier who took the step after the comedian abused and heckled senior TV journalist Arnab Goswami onboard a flight.

The compensation has to be paid on the basis of “mental pain and torture” that he suffered, according to the legal notice. The notice also states that action needs to be taken against “offending officials responsible for imposing the instant ban.”

The notice calls the ban “out of the law, high handed and unpredictable” and against “the principles of natural justice.”

Kamra, soon after sending the legal notice through his lawyer, tweeted, “You’re love & support is helping me go legal against IndiGo6E. Also Lawmen & White have taken this flight to court for me as a special case. To all artists out there don’t fear there are enough good people in society to always support the constitution.”

After the heckling incident, IndiGo Airline in an official statement said, “In light of the recent incident on board 6E 5317 from Mumbai to Lucknow, we wish to inform that we are suspending Mr. Kunal Kamra from flying with IndiGo for a period of six months, as his conduct onboard was unacceptable behaviour.”

After IndiGo, Air India, SpiceJet as well as Go Air, also banned Kunal from flying with their respective airlines until further notice.

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