Mumbai police has contradicted the claims of Jawaharlal Nehru Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who alleged in the morning that a Bharatiya Janata Party supporter tried to strangle him on board a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Pune.

Cops say that, prima facie, there are no evidences of a strangulation attempt made on Kanhaiya by the accused and the fight was over seating, CNN News 18 reported.

Police said that a scuffle broke out between two groups over seating on board the aircraft and Kanhaiya was a part of one of the groups.

In a series of tweets on Sunday morning, Kanhaiya had alleged that a BJP supporter tried to strangle him inside a Jet Airways flight, following which the airline deplaned him.

The alleged attacker was later detained and an FIR was registered.