Place: Kolkata Airport; Date: July 23, 2021; Time: 6:46 AM; Flight Number: SG516.
This is to lodge a formal complaint against Shruti Chakrabarty and her manager who refused to divulge his name (and hid his identity card/name tag so that it could not be viewed) who harassed Ratna Bhattacharyya, age 67, and Ardhendu Bhattacharyya, age 70+ because Ratna Bhattacharya, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy at Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore, Karnataka, for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma under Dr.Sharat Damodar, requested for wheelchair assistance (both when she booked the flight and again at the counter during check-in) because of her weakness which does not allow her to exert much. The above-named ground crew and her manager made Ratna Bhattacharya refused to check her in and handover her boarding pass saying that unless she proves that she is actually a patient she will not be allowed a wheelchair. When Ratna Bhattacharya furnished hard copies all medical records, Shruti Chakrabarty’s manager confiscated it and refused to give the records back to her saying that unless their doctor verifies the information, she will not be allowed to board the flight. Upon asking the name of the doctor and his field of specialization for Ratna Bhattacharya to convey to her doctor, Dr. Sharat Damodar, Shruti Chakrabarty only volunteered the doctor’s last name - one Dr. Ganguly, and told Ratna Bhattacharya that it was no concern of hers. All this whole, neither Shruti Chakrabarty nor her manager bothered to inform the doctor who was allegedly going to peruse Ratna Bhattacharya’s medical records to check the veracity of her statement. Neither did they return the medical records to Ratna Bhattacharya. As of now, both Ratna Bhattacharya and Ardhendu Bhattacharya are still stranded at the Kolkata airport; they will probably miss their flight and Ratna Bhattacharya will miss her chemotherapy scheduled for tomorrow morning. In addition to the mental agony that SpiceJet ground crew is inflicting on her, if Ratna Bhattacharya suffers any detrimental effect to her health because of this, please be informed that redressal for the same will be sought in the appropriate judicial forum and a complaint also lodged with the Consumer Forum. As immediate remedial measure, (1) please instruct your named ground crew and her manager to furnish Ratna Bhattacharya with the wheelchair so that she can board her flight and reach Bangalore safely for her to be able to go through the chemotherapy tomorrow, and (2) warn your staff to be more courteous to the passengers - your guests or relieve them from their duty for incompetence and lack of integrity.
Any communication on this matter should be made to [protected].
We must find a way to put pressure on that Airline not honnest at all