New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- A senior Indian Army officer accused of physically assaulting SpiceJet employees at Srinagar airport has been placed on the airline's no-fly list for five years, Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday, 26 August. SpiceJet has also termed the Indian Army officer as 'unruly', the news report said.

The altercation took place on 26 July when Lieutenant Colonel R. K. Singh, currently posted at the Army's High Altitude Warfare School in Gulmarg, was scheduled to board a SpiceJet flight to Delhi. According to the airline, the officer was carrying 16 kilograms of cabin baggage-more than double the permitted allowance of 7 kilograms.

When SpiceJet staff at the boarding gate asked him to pay the mandatory excess baggage fee, th...