India, Sept. 15 -- Three Italian passengers, earlier this month, travelled from Amritsar to Delhi and boarded a Lufthansa flight to Munich on September 4 without completing immigration formalities in India, an incident that has drawn attention to the government's hub-and-spoke framework.

The Ministry of Home Affairs had called an urgent meeting on the September 4 lapse on Tuesday evening, but it was called off hours earlier. The Union ministry of civil aviation (MoCA) also issued a show-cause notice to Air India over the incident on September 12.

The hub-and-spoke framework came into operation in June and changes where international travellers complete their departure formalities when flying abroad from smaller Indian cities.

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