Air India Pee Case: Shankar Mishra Sent to 14-day Judicial Custody; Airline CEO Says Crew, Pilot De-Rostered | 10 Points

Hours after Shankar Mishra- a man accused of urinating on an elderly female co-traveller India Arrested from the flight, Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Saturday sent him to 14-day judicial custody. The accused’s lawyer Manu Sharma has also filed a bail application. The court issued notice for the next date of hearing on January 11.

Delhi Police arrested 34-year-old Mishra from Bengaluru through technical surveillance. The Bangalore Police had assisted the Delhi Police in arresting Shankar Mishra from Sanjay Nagar area of ​​the city. Police said that he has been brought to Delhi and further investigation is on in the matter.

Meanwhile, Air India CEO apologized for the handling of the incident and said that four cabin crew and a pilot have been removed from the roster and the in-flight liquor policy is being reviewed.

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1. The police had sought his three-day remand, saying he was to be identified by the three cabin crew members and the two captains and other co-passengers were also to be questioned.
2. However, a Delhi court sent Mishra to judicial remand for 14 days, while rejecting his plea for custody by the police. Passing the order, Metropolitan Magistrate Anamika said that Mishra’s custody was not required by the police to record the statements of other witnesses, including the cabin crew. Fellow traveler. “Just because there is public pressure, don’t do it. Go by the law,” said the judge.
3. Meanwhile, speaking to News18, Mishra’s lawyer Ishani Sharma said that while the matter is now in court and everything will be decided by evidence-led trial, there is always a different side to a story, adding that “we’re working very hard for this is just one side of the whole story”.
   The lawyer, after accepting the compensation, termed the criminal complaint by the woman against Mishra as a “malicious idea”.
4. Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Saturday that swift action will be taken in the case of Air India urinating. “Further action will be taken expeditiously once the ongoing proceedings are completed,” Scindia told reporters here without elaborating.
5. Mishra, who was working with American multinational firm Wells Fargo in India, was sacked on Friday.
6. Campbell Wilson, CEO of Tata Group-owned Air India, issued a statement saying the airline could have handled the issue better and promised a robust reporting system of unruly behavior and reporting of such incidents. Passengers to law enforcement authorities, he advised employees to report all incidents regardless of the settlement. The airline is reviewing its “policy on in-flight alcohol service,” Wilson added without elaborating further.
7. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday said that prima facie it appears that Air India has not complied with the provisions relating to handling of an unruly passenger on board an aircraft. The DGCA notice came after the airline told the regulator that its employees referred a complaint about the Mumbai-based businessman to law enforcement after the aggrieved woman rejected an initial request for action after two “appears” to resolve the matter. was “canceled”.
8. A Bangalore Police official said that Mishra was staying at his sister’s house in Sanjay Nagar, Bengaluru. He had switched off his mobile phone on January 3 and his last location was mentioned as Bengaluru.
9. Mishra had allegedly urinated on a senior citizen woman in an inebriated condition in the business class of an Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26 last year. Delhi Police had registered an FIR against her on January 4 on the complaint given by the woman to Air India.
10. Case registered against him under sections 294 (obscene act in public place), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to outrage the modesty of a woman) went. 510 (misbehavior in public by a drunken person) under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as the aircraft rules.
11. According to the FIR, the accused begged the woman not to file a complaint against him saying that he is a family man and did not want his wife and children to be affected by the incident. He said the employees were issued summons for Friday but they did not appear before the police. A lookout circular was issued against Mishra to prevent him from fleeing the country.

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