CHENNAI: Tension prevailed in Chennai airport after a woman refused to board the flight to Port Blair after receiving the boarding pass on Wednesday.

Kalpana (35), from the Andaman, had been staying in Tiruchy for a few days to visit her ailing mother. She was scheduled to return to Andaman on an Indigo Airlines flight that was to depart from Chennai at 10:45 am. Her husband and two kids live in Andaman.

Kalpana had already completed web check-in and received her boarding pass. However, moments before entering the security area, she reportedly changed her mind and told her relatives that she did not wish to travel.

Her relatives, who had come to send her off, tried to persuade and escort her into the terminal. At the entry gate, security personnel stopped the group after Kalpana inform

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