India, Aug. 4 -- A Kerala man has won a nine-year legal battle against Air India, with the airline now being ordered to pay him Rs.1.36 lakh. The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Thiruvananthapuram, ordered Air India to pay Rs.1.36 lakh as compensation to Kapildev, who was left stranded at Mumbai airport overnight after a delayed Air India flight.

Kapildev, a 42-year-old driver employed in Saudi Arabia, had returned to Kerala in June 2017 to meet his family. He was due to fly back on September 10, with an Air India itinerary that included a flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai before his onward journey to Saudi Arabia, according to an Onmanorama report.

Things did not go as planned. The flight from Thiruvananthapuram...