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    Airline quizzed in coffin case

    The civil aviation ministry will seek an explanation from private airline JetLite after an MP complained that the airline had refused to carry a coffin on one of its flights last year.

    The MP, Mr Tapir Gao, from Arunachal Pradesh, made the complaint at a meeting on Wednesday of the parliamentary consultative committee on civil avi ation, of which he is a member. Sources said, that the ministry would seek an explanation from JetLite.

    Mr Gao complained that JetLite had refused to carry the coffin containing the body of a person from his state who had earlier come to Delhi seeking medical treatment. The incident reportedly occurred a few months ago and the coffin was to be taken aboard a JetLite flight from Delhi to Dibrugarh but JetLite refused to carry it, he said.