Indian man arrested, a top executive Shankar Mishra, from Bengaluru for urinating while drunk on elderly female passenger during an Air India flight. Mishra was on the run for several days following the incident.
According to reports, Mishra was hiding in his Bengaluru residence since the incident. The man had been changing locations to evade arrests. He has also been put on a travel ban for 30 days. Shankar Mishra has been charged for urinating on his female co-passenger in her seventies on a business class flight in an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi in November last year.
A case was registered against Shankar Mishra under Indian Penal Code section 294 (obscene act in a public place), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 509 (word, gesture, or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 510 (misconduct in public by a drunken person) as well as under Aircraft Rules.
Mishra worked for a US financial services Wells Fargo. He was sacked by the company after the incident came to light. He served as the Vice President of the Indian chapter of Wells Fargo.
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has issued a notice to Air India for the unprofessional handling of the incident. The notice observed that the air carrier was in dereliction of duty in the handling of the urination incident.
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Air India confirmed the incident where the intoxicated passenger walked up to the elderly woman, unzipped his trouser exposed his private parts, and urinated on her. Following the complaint, Mishra continued standing in the elderly’s passenger seat leaving his body parts exposed. Other passengers shouted at him and asked him to leave.
The incident came to light after the woman wrote to the Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekharan expressing her disappointment over the insensitive attitude of the cabin crew.