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Father suing Cathay Pacific for alleged negligence in assisting son questions airline’s lengthy lawsuit preparation

The Indian businessman is seeking HK$1.94 million in damages

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Ram Prasad Poosaala at the High Court in Admiralty. Photo: SCMP
An Indian businessman suing Cathay Pacific Airways for HK$1.94 million over its alleged failure to attend to his son questioned why the airline was taking so long to prepare for the lawsuit, the High Court heard yesterday.
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Ram Prasad Poosaala, a dried seafood trader, filed his claim on June 14.

He also told the High Court in the pretrial hearing that certain court documents provided to him by the airline contained information that was incomplete.

Cathay Pacific was seeking an extension until September 30 to prepare its case.

The airline was accused of “deficiency of service and gross negligence”, according to Poosaala’s High Court writ.

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The trader said in the court document that his son Raja Ram Poosaala, 12, was travelling alone from Hong Kong to visit his grandmother in Telangana, India, on October 31 last year. The family had requested Cathay Pacific’s assistance for an unaccompanied minor.

But the boy’s uncle, due to receive him at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, could not find the boy at the arrivals hall. The uncle then received a phone call from an unknown caller at the airport, who promptly hung up after just saying the boy was with him.

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