Passenger held at Mumbai airport for smoking on flight from Phuket

A 25-year-old rider was arrested astatine the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport successful Mumbai aft helium was recovered smoking successful the lavatory of a flight, constabulary said connected Saturday (September 27, 2025).

The incidental caused panic wrong the craft erstwhile passengers noticed fume coming from the lavatory during the Phuket-Mumbai formation connected Friday (September 26) night, an authoritative said.

Bhavya Gautam Jain, a nonmigratory of Napeansea Road successful southbound Mumbai, was taken into custody connected his accomplishment astatine the airport, helium said.

Ms. Jain allegedly lit a cigaret wrong the plane’s lavatory, the authoritative said, adding that helium was arrested nether applicable sections of the Aircraft Act.

Smoking is strictly prohibited connected each rider flights nether the country’s aviation rules.