Flight 6E 6961 landed safely at the Lal Bahadur Shastri international airport, in Uttar Pradesh state’s Varanasi, at around 4.10pm local time.
All 166 passengers on board were reported unharmed.
According to the Varanasi police and airport officials, the crew informed the captain after noticing the fuel leak. The pilot, in turn, immediately alerted Air Traffic Control, which cleared the plane for an emergency landing, according to India Today.
The Hindu quoted unnamed sources as saying that a faulty sensor was responsible for triggering a false fuel leak alert, but this has not been confirmed in official statements.
