Overview

• The trainee pilot alleges that during a 30-minute meeting on April 28, three seniors told him he was "not fit to fly" and instructed him to "stitch slippers" as an attack on his Scheduled Caste identity.
• He named Tapas Dey, Manish Sahani and Captain Rahul Patil in an initial zero FIR filed in Bengaluru on May 21, which was later transferred to Gurugram.
• The complaint describes a pattern of professional victimisation, including unauthorized salary cuts, forced retraining sessions and repeated warning letters aimed at pressuring him to resign.
• An FIR under sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was registered at Gurugram’s DLF Phase 1 police station on June 22 and police have begun gathering evidence.
• IndiGo refutes the allegations as baseless and emphasizes its commitment to fairness, integrity and cooperation with law enforcement.