The now-shuttered airline, Jet Airways, is in more trouble now as the All India Jet Airways’ Officers and Staff Association has approached the Mumbai police and have demanded that cops should impound the passports of Jet Airways promoter Naresh Goyal, the Board of Directors, and senior management of the company to stop them from leaving the country.
According to Mumbai Mirror, NCP legislator Kiran Pawaskar, who is president of the association, met Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Barve recently in connection with their demand that an FIR is lodged against Goyal and the entire top management of Jet Airways for the grounding of the full-service airline. Pawaskar in his two-page letter has demanded that the Mumbai police should avoid a repeat of the fiasco similar to Kingfisher Airlines and Cambata Aviation where the owners of the company fled the country to avoid criminal action leaving unpaid employees in the lurch.
The letter also demanded that Mumbai Police should lodge an FIR against Jet Airways management, and seize their passports to stop them from leaving in the interest of justice. “Steps be taken to impound the passport of the company chairman, board of directors and the senior management of the company as many of them are foreign nationals and working in India under work permits. Failure to take action may result in the possibility of these individuals fleeing the country,” wrote Pawaskar in the letter, reported Mumbai Mirror.
The Shiv Sena’s labour union, Bhartiya Kamgar Sena, on Monday, threatened to bring services at the Mumbai international and domestic airports to halt if no resolution is reached by May 10. The union has memberships from airport ground staff, engineers, baggage loaders, and security personnel amongst others.
