E-cigarette users harassed at airports, plan legal action

Reports confiscations at Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Bhavnagar airports following BCAS’s 10 January 2020 circular, and states AVI was “mulling legal options” — the direct run-up to the flight-ban litigation now on this site’s Litigation page. Quotes an affected traveller, Dhruva Kudva (Bangalore, 16 Jan confiscation), and advocate Pingal Khan on the circular’s misreading of the law.