air india passenger urination caseUS financial services company Wells Fargo on Friday sacked its employee who was accused of urinating on a female co-passenger on a New York-bound Air India flight on November 26 last year.
The company released a statement saying, “Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal conduct and we find these allegations very troubling. This individual has been terminated from Wells Fargo. We will comply with the law.” We are cooperating with enforcement and ask for any additional inquiries to be made.”
The accused Shankar Mishra was allegedly in an inebriated condition at the time of the incident. The company’s statement comes after the Delhi Police reached out to Wells Fargo to cooperate with the investigation against the accused, S Mishra.
A Delhi Police officer who was part of the investigation team said, “We have contacted the legal team of US-based company Wells Fargo in India to get accused S Mishra to cooperate or join the investigation at the earliest.” The Delhi Police on Thursday issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) for accused S Mishra to leave the country and know his whereabouts.
The Delhi Police on Wednesday registered an FIR on the shocking incident based on a complaint by Air India. The police have registered an FIR in this matter under sections 354, 509 and 510 of the Indian Penal Code and section 23 of the Indian Aircraft Act. , Both the accused and the victim are residents of outside Delhi.
Air India also imposed a 30-day flying ban on the passenger.
delhi police probing urinating incident
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has issued summons to six-eight crew members of the Air India flight, including the pilot, in connection with Friday’s urination incident. According to the complaint lodged by the victim on Wednesday, the crew brought the accused to his seat and forced him to face him, pleading to avoid arrest.
When the culprit was brought before her, the woman was ‘stunned’ and ‘began to cry and apologise’. The complainant alleges that after the incident, the pilot vetoed the first class seat offered to him. “The flight crew told me that the pilot had vetoed my first class seat,” she wrote in the complaint.
What happened after all?
On November 26 last year, a drunken passenger urinated on a female flyer in the business class of an Air India flight. The accused has been identified as S Mishra, a resident of Mumbai. On November 26, S Mishra, allegedly in an inebriated state, urinated on the woman. He stood there until another passenger asked him to return to his seat.
Look Out Circular (LOC) has been issued against the accused who are evading arrest. According to a Delhi Police official, when the team reached his residence in Mumbai’s Kamgar Nagar area, he was not there. According to technical surveillance, the suspect’s last whereabouts were in Bengaluru which is his official work address.
“A Delhi Police team went to Bengaluru and found that he has taken leave from office,” sources said. against her will and she apologized profusely so that no complaint would be lodged against her.
In her complaint to ‘Shikayat Vayu Seva’, the woman narrated the entire incident in detail and said that the man unzipped his pant and urinated on me and stood there till the person sitting next to me taped him. Didn’t and asked him to go back. his seat’. She alleged that the Air India crew was “deeply unprofessional” and “not proactive in the management of a very sensitive and painful situation”.
(With inputs from ANI)
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