Jitendra Kumar Mohala could be suffering from what psychiatrists call a frustration aggression syndrome. Mohala was arrested on Sunday night and sent to jail for 14 days for creating a hijack scare on an Indigo flight, leading to a security crisis at IGI airport. Mohala, a 42-year-old CA from Dwarka and son of a retired Air Force commodore, was returning from Goa and is said to have been inebriated. According to psychiatrists, the influence of alcohol had brought out deep-rooted insecurities and frustrations in Mohala who otherwise may have been a normal person. Senior psychiatrist from Vimhans Dr Jitender Nagpal told TOI, “Aggression and thrill seeking behaviour in an inebriated state is a known reaction which s o m e t i m e s leads to collective or individualised violence. Certain anti-social traits or careless disregard for environment can surface in this state. Most of these traits exist in the person, lying dormant, but get manifested under influence of alcohol. Mohala should immediately be subjected to psycho-social evaluation before he causes more harm to his environment. ” Security agencies said trouble began over a tiff between Mohala and an airhostess over allotment of seats. Mohala misbehaved and threatened her, saying he was armed and had two accomplices on board who would hijack the plane. He went a step further by saying he was behind the hijacking of the IC-814 flight. He also said he was an official of the DGCA and would inspect the plane. During his interrogation on Monday, Mohala said he created the chaos just for kicks. “There’s no doubt he suffers from tremendous insecurity and frustration, causing disconnected thought process. What he said had no logical sequence… This could be a result of enormous stress that has resulted in chronic depression,” an expert from AIIMS said.
HOW THE DRAMA UNFOLDED
Goa-Delhi Indigo flight pilot contacted Delhi ATC at 5.15 pm ATC informed ground security, which alerted the NSG control room at Mehram Nagar and Union home ministry control room ATC facilitated Indigo flight’s priority landing at 5.29 pm, told pilot to take the aircraft to the isolation bay 60 NSG commandos and 100 CISF personnel surrounded the aircraft by 5.35 pm, 20 mins after first call to ATC Home minister P Chidambaram rushed to North Block and stationed himself at the control room with special secretary (internal security) Raman Srivastava and other officials Cabinet secy called meeting of anti-hijack panel at 6 pm, summoning home, civil aviation and defence secretaries, and CISF and NSG chiefs Though officials came to know at the meet that the situation seemed under control, sources said the entire Standard Operating Procedures and follow-up action were discussed First 5 NSG commandos entered aircraft at 7.05 pm. Pilot, ATC and ground security control room were in constant touch Commandos overpowered suspects Jitendra Mohala (seat 16E), Samir Uppal (16B) and Harpreet Anand (29D). They were brought out and handed over to security officials. More commandos entered and screened each passenger. Passengers were screened again at airport. Entire exercise ended by 10.30 pm
Police escort Jitendra Mohala, arrested for the hijack ruckus at IGI on Sunday, to court in Delhi on Monday.
