After spending three days in transit at Amsterdam airport Sanjay Sapra was relieved to board KLM flight to Delhi on Friday, but his joy turned to horror after the aircraft was refused permission to land in India and forced to return from Russian airspace.
India stopped all passenger traffic from Europe and Turkey from March 18 to stop the spread of Covid-19. Sapra and over hundred other Indian passengers who were returning to India from the US and Canada were stuck at Amsterdam following the decision.
Stranded passengers petitioned external affairs ministry for help and allow them to return to

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