A civil suit against Air India in the United States of America, filed by a former manager and senior instructor pilot of the Boeing Company, has now spilled over into the Supreme Court of India.  A ‘criminal plaint’ has this week been filed in the Supreme Court of India against the Directors of Air India, for criminal offences committed in the United States case which may also constitute offences in India. 

Air India, through its Directors, has for some time been implicated in a lawless endeavour with the Boeing Company in Seattle.  This endeavour concerns criminal retaliation against the former Boeing instructor pilot after a flying assignment with Air India back in 2005.  At the time, the retaliation was sparked off by violations of the India Aviation Act by Air India - which violations were reported on by the Boeing instructor pilot.  In concert with the Boeing Company, Air India acted to prevent dissemination of the damning report through threats, intimidation, and coercion.

That unlawful course of action rapidly escalated into two abortive kidnap and murder attempts and entangled the two companies in a wider criminal conspiracy with senior officials of the US Government.  Acting in concert, Boeing, Air India, and corrupt US officials, conspired to kill and thereby silence the Boeing instructor pilot in an all-out effort to prevent public exposure of the aforementioned and other crimes.  Attempts to bring the perpetrators to book for their crimes, both in the United States and in India, have to date been suppressed by the high-level US government officials implicated.  

However, recent events in the United States federal courts and the criminal plaint’ filed in the Supreme Court of India this week represent renewed attempts to bring the offenders to justice.  Certain offences filed in the United States case against Air India, which were committed beyond the borders of India, may by law be tried in India in the same manner as if such acts had been committed within India.  (Indian Penal Code, Section 3). The grave charges filed against Air India Directors allege criminal intimidation and conspiracy to cause disappearance of evidence, conspiracy to obstruct lawful apprehension, and conspiracy to kidnap or abduct in order to murder.