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Air India flight AI-103 from Delhi to Washington DC was halted in Vienna on July 2nd after a routine fuel stop revealed an extended maintenance requirement. The onward journey was cancelled amid heightened safety scrutiny following a recent crash in Ahmedabad. Passengers with Schengen visas were accommodated locally, while others await clearance from Austrian authorities. The return flight AI-104 has also been cancelled. Air India is offering full refunds or rescheduling for affected travellers.

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00:00Air India, Delhi to Washington DC flight has been held back in Vienna.
00:04This is Air India, Delhi to Washington DC, AI-103 made a planned fuel stop in Vienna.
00:10This was scheduled.
00:112nd July, AI-103 makes a planned fuel stop in Vienna.
00:16It's an extended maintenance task that was identified during a routine check.
00:21Vienna to Washington DC is the leg of AI-103, but it was cancelled due to extended maintenance.
00:27Air India has put out a statement, I'll quickly quote it.
00:30Extended maintenance task has been identified in the backdrop of the aircraft crash that happened in Ahmedabad.
00:37Remember, every little step is being scrutinized.
00:42There are no chances being taken at all.
00:44Amit Bhardwa joins me for the latest on that.
00:46Amit, what are you hearing about this specific extended maintenance?
00:52What does it mean? When will the aircraft take off?
00:54Well, Puja, you know, this was Delhi to Washington DC flight AI-103, which landed in Vienna because that's how the flight route is.
01:09It's Delhi to Vienna to Washington DC.
01:11However, when the refueling of the aircraft was being done, as per the standard protocol, that is, the check of craft is done at the airport where the refueling happens.
01:24That's when the need for an extended maintenance was, you know, found out in this particular flight, after which the passengers were disembarked.
01:33And because of the extra time that was required for carrying out that particular maintenance, the last leg of the flight that is Vienna to Washington DC that was cancelled, that could not happen.
01:44Now, Air India is confirming us that those who had the valid visa permissions or Schengen visa, they have been given accommodations in Vienna itself, while other passengers who do not have the entry permissions in Austria right now, the authorities are being roped in and, you know, required permissions are being taken in order to accommodate them in the hotels.
02:09In the meantime, AI-104, that is, Washington DC to Delhi flight, that has been cancelled as well, in consequence to this particular craft not being able to take off from Vienna to Washington DC.
02:22Now, what is happening in the other case is that either full refund is being given to the passengers or their flights are being rescheduled as per the requirements of those passengers.
02:32But it is important to note, those who had valid visa permissions, they have been accommodated with the hotels, while others await permission from the Austrian authorities.
02:43But this also then means there could be a slight disruption with the schedules of the passengers as well.
02:48Nevertheless, of course, safety security is of prime importance.
02:51Amit Bhardwaj will be updating us for now in Air India Aircraft in Vienna.
02:55Scheduled stop, but extended maintenance means it's been held back for now.
03:02As the coward yatra has started, there is an issue now with the fringe group's identification drive.
03:11Remember, there is police administration on the job already to ensure it's a safe and secure yatra for one and all and it's a matter of pride for the country.
03:20However, there was, it appears, and this is shocking to say the least, the visual that's going viral,
03:25a Dhabha staff member was told to remove his trousers and prove his identity.
03:32Gopal Akhat Tajamul was then made to apologise.
03:36The Dhabha worker has spoken out on the alleged stripping,
03:40reveals that basically there was a Hindu identity that was used to mislead the Yatris,
03:46but this has led to tensions as well.
03:49Tensions with regard to, one, the question is, who gave right to these fringe groups?
03:52They're not the police, they're not the administration, if at all required.
03:56How are they going around asking anyone to be able to prove their religious identity?
04:02Asaduddin Ovesi has jumped in, claiming that this is Pehelgaam-like profiling.
04:07In Pehelgaam, the Hindus who were asked to pull down their trousers when confirmed they are Hindu,
04:11or basically when confirmed non-Muslim, they were killed.
04:14Is this the same, what is happening in the coward yatra?
04:17Let's listen in and take a look at what's happening, the visual on your screen.
04:22Let's first listen in to the victim, the man.
04:23Let's listen in to the victim, the man.
04:53What's the name?
04:54What name is his name?
04:54Sanum Bur.
04:55Sanum Bur.
04:55Your name is your name?
04:57My name is Tajamurji.
04:59Tajamur.
05:00I don't know.
05:01Which country is your country?
05:02Vaizhuri, where is it?
05:03Vaizhuri.
05:04What happened to you day when you told me?
05:06I've arrived at the hotel, keep my name so I'll tell you what I was wrong.
05:10Okay.
05:11So you've said the name in the hotel, keep my name so I'll tell you?
05:13I'm from Pandagji.
05:15If you are taking a car, what should I be running?
05:17There is a car and a car.
05:18The bike.
05:19Do you try to keep inside?
05:20Do you try to keep inside?
05:22Yes.
05:22Yes, I will.
05:24I will.
05:26I will.
05:28I will.
05:30I will.
05:32I will.
05:34My name is Sanatan Dharam.
05:36My name is Sanatan Dharam.
05:40I will.
05:42The Muslim.
05:44He is not going to live in the name of the Muslim.
05:46He is not going to live in the name of Sanatan Dharam.
05:50People are going to.'"
05:52If people as,
05:54you know what this subject is,
05:58you put the knowledge is developed for the people there
06:02and give the knowledge of the police.
06:06And they will lift in their own view of their own and BACKYAH,
06:08pushing in their own feelings.
06:10It will employ them to try not to limit their restrictions.
06:14That's why them let her take a look at their own views.
06:18So tensions prevailing already, but lets see
06:20Listen in how the AI MIM has jumped in
06:23Fully political this showdown has become
06:25Asaduddin Rovesi has this to say
06:50A worker did say and accept that
07:19He was asked to change his identity
07:21To be working at the Dhaba if asked
07:23Nevertheless what gives right to these fringe groups
07:25Let's listen in to what unfolded at the Dhaba
07:49Now this is what Gopal alias Tajamal
08:10Has to say what happened
08:11With him at the Dhaba
08:13What happened to you
08:43A simple dhaba worker, remember, doesn't have any power of his own.
09:07Clearly expected to feel tensions prevailing at this juncture.
09:12Why did the hotel owner or the dhaba owner ask him to change identity?
09:15Because eventually he has managed to get away.
09:18This man surrounded by this right-wing vigilante group and escalating tensions.
09:24Samart Srivastav joins me. He's been tracking.
09:26Samart, what exactly happened? Where is this location?
09:30And how can a group just manage to land up and ask a man about his religious identity?
09:37Well, exactly. It's a tragic incident.
09:39We know that Mopal, a dhaba employee has come forward and disclosed that his real name is Sajamuri.
09:45The evidence that the dhaba owner had changed his name to conceal his identity.
09:49This disclosure has brought light to the practice of some individual hiding the identity to cater to pilgrims during the Kamanyasa.
09:56Though many Hindu outfits also roaming around the shop, especially the rest of UP,
10:00in a way asking them to put their nameplate, also the UP government's government order says so.
10:06If you talk about the incident, it occurred when Swami Yashvishji Maharaj's team conducted an anti-verification campaign along the Kamanyasa route.
10:15During this campaign, they visited the Panditji,
10:18a national dhaba on the Delhi-Jaharadur National Highway.
10:21They drifted and asked the employees to show.
10:23Their abhatars, however, the employees refused to comply, leading to a confrontation.
10:28Sajamuri, who was walking as a dhaba under the name of Gopal,
10:31claimed that the owner had instructed him to hide his true identity.
10:34He alleged that the owner had even, at one point, asked him to wear a second thread
10:39and took him to introduce himself as a Panditji.
10:43So that's the scenario coming in.
10:45Though, from both entities, there are many Hindu outfits who are doing...
10:49What are the police saying, Samarth?
10:50Have the police or the administration have said anything about these random groups also landing up, checking identities?
10:57The police have taken in all this particular matter and issued notices to six members of Swami Yashvishji Maharaj's team.
11:03The incident is being investigated and appropriate action will be taken based on the findings
11:08that was the circular officers of that particular area have created.
11:11Back to you.
11:12Alright, Samarth, round with me.
11:14I want the viewer to listen in to Dhirendra Shastri,
11:17who is also known as Bageshwar Dham Sarkar.
11:20Here's what he's saying.
11:21I want the viewer to listen in to Dhirendra Shastri.
11:51BJP's Anila Singh joins me on the phone line right now.
11:57Anila, tell me this.
11:59Kavad Yatra is such a beautiful, sacred yatra of sacrifice.
12:03It takes so much effort.
12:05And then these groups rand up, checking these identities.
12:10Is this really necessary?
12:11Doesn't it give a bad name to the yatra itself?
12:16My ram ram to all and a BJP party spokesperson,
12:19I can say one thing.
12:21That my political party or the governments, wherever,
12:24in the center of the states,
12:25and especially if I talk about Uttar Pradesh,
12:28we do not stand with any person who takes a law in his or her own hands,
12:32coming from any caste or religion.
12:35But at the same time, who has given the right to the Samajwadi party or the Congress,
12:40that they have coined this name,
12:42Atankwad.
12:44So terrorism, Bhagwat Atankwad,
12:46separate terrorism.
12:48What is this nonsense?
12:49So majority population living in this great country of ours,
12:52if they celebrate their festivals or do anything,
12:56they start saying,
12:58okay, this is not a great thing
13:00and we should follow the secularism.
13:02You are correct.
13:03If somebody goes and tries to know the identity,
13:07he has got right to do so.
13:09Going ahead than that is not correct.
13:12But it doesn't mean that somebody is going to come out of their shell
13:14and they will say that this is Atankwad.
13:17Absolutely not.
13:18Atankwad is what Samajwadi party does.
13:21And we know it very well.
13:22When Asaduddin Ovaysi says,
13:23this is Pahalgam-like profiling.
13:25Do you agree to that?
13:30Hello?
13:31Ovaysi says,
13:32this is Pahalgam-like racial profiling.
13:34What happened in the terror attack?
13:36Perhaps they do not understand that what happened,
13:39what occurred in Pahalgam.
13:41That is why they are trying to compare both the incidents.
13:47They have lost the lives.
13:49Many, many sisters of us,
13:53daughters of ours.
13:54They lost their husband.
13:57What nonsense they are talking about.
13:58Okay.
13:59Anula Singh, thank you very much for now.
14:02As we look at these visuals on our screen right now,
14:05remember the police will have to be stricter on this.
14:07There is already deployment of the police.
14:09There is a special convoy route that is created.
14:13And yet this happens.
14:14Anurag Badoria joining me of the Samajwadi party.
14:18Mr. Badoria, tell me this.
14:20Now, when a man says that I have to change my identity to change my identity,
14:25I have to change my identity to change my hotel and I have to change my identity to change my identity.
14:29And then you come to change your identity.
14:31What is the reflection of the army?
14:32This reflection is the one that is called communal tensions.
14:34What do you want to do in the army?
26:38They're trying to hunt you.
30:08Okay.
38:08I have some news.
39:38Yeah.
40:08Okay.
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