New Delhi: Air India was served a show-cause notice on Monday, January 9, by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for a “lackadaisical and delayed” response to the incident concerning two unruly passengers aboard an Air India flight from Paris to New Delhi last month, The Times of India reported.Seeking a response from Air India’s accountable manager within two weeks, the notice sought to know, “Why enforcement action should not be taken against the airline for dereliction of their regulatory obligations.”This is the second show cause notice served on the airline in a span of four days. The earlier show cause notice was in relation to the “unprofessional” handling of an incident which took place on a New York-New Delhi Air India flight in November 2022 when a male passenger of the business class in an inebriated condition urinated on his elderly woman co-passenger.“Two incidents of passenger misbehaviour occurring on December 6 Air India flight AI-142 from Paris to New Delhi came to the notice of the DGCA. One passenger caught smoking in the lavatory was drunk and not listening to the crew. Another passenger allegedly relieved himself on a vacant seat and blanket of a fellow female passenger when she went to the lavatory,” DGCA notice to the airline said, according to the TOI report.According to DGCA civil aviation regulations (CAR), airlines are mandated to report to the DGCA of unruly passengers and any incidents on flights within 24 hours of landing.The DGCA notice to the airline said the latter did not report the matter to the authorities concerned until January 5, when the civil aviation regulator had sought a report on the incidents on the Paris-New Delhi flight of December 6, 2022.“After perusal of the reply submitted by Air India, prima facie it emerges that provisions related to the handling of unruly passengers as per the DGCA CAR have not been complied with,” DGCA said, according to the news report.As per the norms, Air India should have constituted an internal panel, headed by a retired district and sessions judge, within a month on whether a passenger concerned should be banned from flying, and if so, for how long.