The accused is Shankar Mishra, 34, an employee of financial services giant Wells Fargo, who was arrested two weeks after the events. But the crew of the Air India flight is also being charged.
He is said to have urinated on another passenger on an Air India business class flight from New Delhi NYC. Indian police arrested on Saturday 7th December Shankar Mishra, 34, in Bangalore after the incident last November, New Delhi Police spokesman Suman Nalva has confirmed. According to the Times of India newspaper, the man was “drunk” and “didn’t think he was doing what he was doing”.
A court of New Delhi sentenced him to 14 years in prison while police investigate the complaint he alleges about Mishra “Outrage to the point of shame” of a woman. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison. Sugata Bhattacharjee, another passenger on the flight, told local media he saw Mishra consuming too much alcohol and speaking incoherently, asking him the same question over and over again about his family.
The man was banned from flying Air India for the next 30 days. Too weak a measure that has caused some controversy in India. Also, the unfortunate 70-year-old was not reassigned a seat as operations were full and the captain’s okay was needed to transfer her to first class, which would never have arrived.
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The Delhi Women’s Commission (DCW) has sought disciplinary action against the airline for “negligence,” with Air India itself admitting “that it could have handled this matter better, both in flight and on the ground,” the airline’s CEO said Chief Executive Officer Campbell Wilson said in a statement. But it doesn’t stop there because AirIndia given the allegations it suspended pilots and four crew members of the flight in question.
Meanwhile, Mishra, an employee of US financial services giant Wells Fargo, has been fired in view of the accident. Announcing the action, the company said it has maintained “the highest standards of professional and personal conduct” for its employees and “find these allegations deeply disturbing.”