Deoghar DC along with 9 slapped with Sedition and Zero FIR over the airport ATC entry row

FIR has been registered against Deodhar Deputy Commissioner M Bhanjantri along with charges under IPC and Official Secrets Act

• Deoghar DC Manjunath Bhajantri has been alleged of threatening the ATC authorities for clearing their flights.
• Nine individuals have been booked including MP Manoj Tiwari.

A Zero FIR has been registered against Deoghar DC (Deputy Commissioner) Manjunath Bhajantri by the Delhi Police at the North Avenue Police Station. He has been slapped with the charges of Sedition and other sections on a complaint by Nishikant Dubey (BJP MP).

Charges were pressed against him under sections of the Indian Penal Code and Official Secrets Act. 

The case comes under the row of erupted FIRs that were registered against Dubey and nine others (including MP Manoj Tiwari). Sandeep Dhingra, the airport director has also been named in the FIR.

They have been charged for barging into Deoghar’s Air Traffic Control room. They have allegedly forced the officials to clear their chartered flights. On August 31 the BJP leaders pressured the ATC officials. 

The officials stated that the nine individuals had been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Aircraft Act. 

Deoghar DC barged into the premises 

The airport authorities have held a case against the director Sandeep Dhingra. The CCTV footage has been asked by the authorities in which DC Deoghar threatened Dhingra.

The incident saw the light of day after the BJP MPs were on their way back to Delhi. They went to meet the family members of the girl (minor) who was burnt alive in Dumka.

Dubey has said that he got an FIR registered in Delhi. Adding to this he asked whether Hemant Soren (Jharkhand’s Chief Minister) had given the DC a contract to ‘abuse the central government establishment’.

Dubey via tweet said that this act has been initiated by DC Bhajantri is similar to a crime. He further asked with whose permission they entered the premises and with what capacity they thought of entering the airport. They didn’t have permission to scroll through the CCTV footage, whatsoever.

On September 2, Bhajantri in a letter to the principal secretary, cabinet-coordination (civil aviation), Jharkhand, said that after boarding the plane, the pilot came out of the plane and started walking towards the ATC.

He mentioned that the local sunset time was 6:03 pm on August 31. However, the Chartered flight took off at 6:17 pm. The air services are to be conducted up to 5:30 pm at the Deoghar airport.