Dammam: Mangaluru bound Air India Express flight that was scheduled to take off from Dammam International Airport at 10.10 pm on Monday night was once again delayed. This the flight was delayed for about seven hours, passengers of the flight told Vartha Bharati.

According to the passengers the flight carrier Air India Express sent Emails to them at 9.30 pm informing them about the delay in flights causing inconvenience to about 200 passengers who were by then had already reached airport.

The passengers further alleged that women, children, senior citizen and patients were made to wait at the airport without adequate arrangements of food and accommodation for more than seven hours. The passengers further added that the Air India Express officials did not respond to their queries about the delay.

People from Coastal Karnataka and neighboring state Kerala prefer taking flight from Dammam to Mangaluru International Airport as it has direct flight between the two airports.

In a similar incident earlier this month, the same flight was delayed for more than two and an half hour before taking off. The passengers then were made to wait inside the flight with food and water supplies, the passengers had alleged.

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Hyderabad  (PTI): Rohith Vemula's mother Radhika Vemula met Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here on Saturday and urged him to see that "justice" is done to the family.

Reddy assured her that an investigation would be conducted again into the University of Hyderabad student's suicide in 2016 and that justice would be done, an official release said.

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Telangana DGP Ravi Gupta has already announced to conduct further investigation into the case in view of the doubts expressed by Rohith Vemula's mother and others on the closure report.

A petition will be filed in the court concerned requesting the Magistrate to permit further investigation into the case, he said in a statement on Friday night.

The police gave a clean chit to the accused, including incumbent Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, former BJP MLC N Ramchander Rao, and cited lack of evidence in the case.