Dev Gupta, CSS

Little Long Read! The Army officer had a medical emergency at his home, he got emergency leave. Staff did not only misbehave but they closed the boarding gate without taking him in for a hand baggage which was cleared by the check in counter. His flight missed, and he did in anger what he should not have. SpiceJet in particular has been the flag bearer of this crooked behaviour. They are cutting costs on ground staff, allowing bags heavier than 7 kg to be carried as hand baggage. It's a prevalent scene. Suddenly, when they want to make money, they will start charging extra for the same baggage that has been cleared earlier, and this is not new; this has been happening for a long time. Local staff there have harassed many army officers and soldiers earlier also, but none spoke about it, and I'm sure even this officer would not have reacted too if he did not have to got to attend family medical emergency. But those people who are defending SpiceJet staffs would have been outraged on social media and would have trended #BoycottSpiceJet had it happened to them. + I can see lots of political stooges, who questioned the armed forces during Operation Sindoor, are now targeting the army officer because they have got the chance. So many people are ranting here, but none stood for the army officers when: 1. Recently Col PS Bath was assaulted in Patiala; not a single police officer was arrested. (HC handed over the case to CBI now.) 2. When Lt. Col. was slapped in front of his wife and daughter in Lucknow, the ASI was not arrested yet. 3. When Capt and his wife were assaulted by police in Odisha, there was no outrage (the High Court had to intervene and rap up the police.) 4. When a soldier in Rajasthan was brutally assaulted by police, there was no outrage. 5. In Jamakhandi, Karnataka, 9 Para SF troopers were jailed. Even the Army, under the provisions of Section 104 of the Army Act, 1950, formally sought military custody of Ptr Abhimanyu on the 19th of March 2025 but was rejected. All these cases have happened in the last year.