The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission at Chandigarh increased the compensation from Rs 5000 to Rs 1 lakh to be paid by Air India to an associated professor from Mohali. The professor Sardool Singh Ghumman was deboarded from an Air India flight in 2015 without mentioning any specific reason and he appealed over the deboarding in Chandigarh Consumer Forum to compensate him with Rs 5000,The Indian Expressreported.

Ghuman who is an associate professor at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal in Sangrur told the Commission that on September 5, 2015, he was on returning to Chandigarh after attending the European Nuclear Physics Conference at Groningen, Netherlands.

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