MUMBAI: Controversial religious leader Asaram Bapu and his devotees Sunday created a "ruckus" aboard a Jet Airways Jodhpur-Delhi flight, refusing to be seated and shouting slogans throughout the length of the flight, said three passengers on board.What's more, the flight operated with improper air-conditioning, the passengers said, making people on board nauseous and asphyxiated.Asaram, accused of sexually assaulting a minor, has been imprisoned in the Jodhpur prison since 2013. He has been fighting court cases and put in pleas for bail on health grounds."The flight 9W 2552 was to take off at 11:55 am but got delayed by at least two hours. There were no announcements made although we kept getting messages on our phones," Dessidre Fleming, one of the passengers, an editor at online magazine MenXP, told ET.Around 1:30 pm, a barrage of policemen came and formed a human barricade, separating other passengers from a pathway through which Asaram was brought in on a wheelchair. He was followed by 10-15 of his devotees, who had booked tickets solely to accompany him to on the flight to Delhi."Immediately after he came, the boarding started. There was no queue. An airhostess screamed an announcement to board the flight," said Swati Daga, a public relations consultant.Passengers found the aircraft hot and stuffy with almost no air-conditioning."On being asked, a steward said the cooling wouldn't start until all passengers were seated, something none of us had ever heard before," said Sahiba Gursahaney, a marketing executive.The flight took off without any of the mandatory safety instructions airhostesses are supposed to give. What's more, most of the devotees didn’t take their seats at the time of takeoff. Those who did, didn’t wear seatbelts."'Seat belt ki kya zaroorat jab swayam bhagwaan hamare saath hain? (What is the need of a seatbelt when God Himself is travelling with us?),' said one of the passengers. Throughout the flight, they kept shouting 'Asaram Bapu ki Jai! Sai! Sai!" said Daga. She added all requests from the cabin crew to make them sit, were in vain.Fifteen minutes into the flight, the pilot said a techinical glitch had impacted the in-flight cooling. The cooling remained “extremely low”, keeping the flight hot and stuffy throughout, all three passengers said.Upon landing, Asaram insisted he would be escorted by his devotees while deplaning, instead of taking a queue as mandated.“There was a massive crowd outside the airport. People ran after him as they came out. There was chaos," said Daga.A Jet Airways spokesperson said the initial delay happened due to a bird strike, and because an alternate aircraft from Delhi was arranged to operate the flight.However, she had no response on specific emailed queries regarding the aforementioned events inside the flight.A source at the Delhi airport said about 20 disciples were handed over to the airport police. But they were let off in a few minutes.