Bengaluru: How businessman landed in jail after a call to Spicejet customer care

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A 32-year-old entrepreneur, who traveled from Delhi to Bengaluru on a SpiceJet flight on Tuesday and inadvertently left his wallet on the plane, was arrested for asking the airlines call centre staff if they would be as callous as they were to him if there had been a bomb in his purse...

The flight had landed at 9.20 pm, and shortly after, the businessman, identified as Shreyansh Chamaria, called the SpiceJet call centre at 10.15 pm to inform them about his forgotten wallet..

However, Chamaria expressed dissatisfaction with the staff's response, which he deemed as careless..

According to the complaint, the call centre employee inquired about the location of the bomb..

In his defense, he clarified that he did not intend to make a bomb threat but was rather frustrated with the call centre's delayed response to his complaint..

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