Indus Valley Times

Bengaluru,Jan 7 :  The Mumbai-based man accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger during an Air India flight has been arrested from Bengaluru after absconding for several days.

Sources said the accused, Shankar Mishra, was putting up at a home-stay in Bengaluru when he was nabbed. A Delhi Police team had been trying to zero in on his location through Friday night.

The accused had been changing locations to evade arrest. Delhi Police was conducting raids in Mumbai and Bengaluru as Mishra has his office in these two cities, and he frequently travels to both cities.

Delhi Police had issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against Shankar Mishra after he went incommunicado and refused to join the investigation.

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It is alleged that Mishra, while in an inebriated state, urinated on his co-passenger, a senior citizen in her seventies, in business class on an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi in November last year.

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A case was registered against Shankar Mishra under Indian Penal Code 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 insult the modesty of a woman) and 510 (misconduct in public by a drunken person) as well as under Aircraft Rules.

Mishra, who worked for US financial services major Wells Fargo, was sacked by the company after the incident came to light and dominated headlines this week. He served as the vice president of the India chapter of Wells Fargo.

Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a show cause notice to the Tata Group-owned Air India and claimed their handling of the incident was “unprofessional”. The DGCA also noted that the air carrier was in ‘dereliction’ of duty while handling the November 26 urination incident.

Air India confirmed the incident wherein a man, in an inebriated state, urinated on a female passenger, seated in the business class of the air carrier. Shankar Mishra is accused of walking over to the woman’s seat, unzipping his trousers, flashing his private body parts and urinating on her.

As per the complaint, Mishra continued standing at the elderly person’s seat while his body parts were exposed. He was asked to leave by another passenger.

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The incident came to light after the aggrieved woman passenger wrote to Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekharan expressing her disappointment by stating that the cabin crew were highly insensitive towards the situation.

However, no strict or apparent action was initiated against Shankar Mishra at the outset of the lady’s complaint.

-PTI