On an Air India flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Indira Gandhi International Airport on November 1. On February 26, Mishra was “completely intoxicated” and urinated on another passenger, according to a police report, which cites a letter from the alleged victim.
‘He opened his pants and urinated on me and remained standing until the person sitting next to me punched him and told him to get back to his seat,’ said the woman, who was sitting in business class. a row behind Mishra, according to the report.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified by police and described herself as an elderly person, told the crew she wanted Mishra arrested when they landed in India. But, she says, the crew brought Mishra to her “against my will”.
He apologized and begged her not to press charges, she said.
“Faced with his pleas and pleas in front of me, and my own trauma and trauma,” she said, “I found it difficult to press for his arrest or press charges against him.”
Mishra’s lawyers, Ishanee Sharma and Akshat Bajpai, said in a statement that Mishra “does not recall the details of the incident.” They added that Mishra was “very sorry and respectful” to the woman “when he woke up from his sleep” on the plane.
The two men had reached an agreement for Mishra to pay for the cleaning of the woman’s belongings, the lawyers said, and Mishra paid her on November 1. 28. But the woman returned the money on December 13th. 19, “which clearly reflects a malicious ulterior motive,” the attorneys said.
Wells Fargo said In a statement to the Hindu, a local publication in India, he found the allegations “deeply disturbing” and that Mishra had been fired. Mishra was vice president of the bank’s operations in India and was fired on Friday, said Sharma, the attorney.
Wells Fargo did not respond to a request for comment.
The month-long delay between the flight and Air India’s report to the police has fueled criticism of the airline’s handling of the incident.
India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, said the airline’s conduct “appears to be unprofessional”. It issued ‘show cause’ notices to airline officials and flight crew asking them to explain ‘why enforcement action should not be taken against them for failing to meet their regulatory obligations’.
Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson said in a statement that the airline was “deeply concerned” about customers who “have suffered from the reprehensible acts of their co-passengers”.
“Air India recognizes that it could have handled these issues better, both in the air and on the ground,” Wilson said. The crew of the November. Flight 26 was removed from the airline’s roster, he said, adding that internal investigations were ongoing into the alcohol service and employees’ handling of the incident.
Campbell said Air India refunded the woman’s ticket and arranged four meetings between staff and the woman in December. The woman’s family asked for December 12. 26 that the airline file a police report, which it did on the 2nd of December. 28 years old, he said.
According to the report, the woman said her clothes, shoes and bag were “soaked in urine” and that the flight crew “refused to touch them, sprayed my bag and shoes with disinfectant, took me to the bathroom and gave me a set of pajamas and airline socks.
She asked for another seat but was told there were none available. After refusing to sit in her soiled seat, the woman said, she was given a jump seat – a small seat intended for short-term use by the crew – for the remainder of the flight.
Another passenger “who had witnessed my distress” remarked that it looked like there were free seats in first class, but the crew informed her that the pilot had “vetoed giving me a first class seat”.
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