Mumbai/New Delhi: The Descent of Air India, a book authored by Jitendra Bhargava, former executive director of the state carrier, will be withdrawn by its publishers Bloomsbury Publishing India.
The book, as the title suggests, attempts to chronicle the decline of Air India and alleges that it was the policies driven by several persons, including the then Civil Aviation Minister and now Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel and then Chairman and Managing Director V. Thulasidas, which were responsible for the present state of Air India. Soon after the book was released in November, Patel had filed a criminal defamation suit against Bhargava and Bloomsbury before the Metropolitan Magistrate, Mumbai.
Sources said that the publishers agreed to apologise to Patel last week.
On Wednesday, the publisher apologised to Patel through an advertisement in leading newspapers, for the contents in the book.
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