Peegate
Mumbai man who urinated on female co-passenger on Air India flight sacked by his company
New Delhi/IBNS: The Mumbai man, who peed on an elderly female co-passenger on an Air India flight, has been sacked by his company Wells Fargo, where he worked as vice-president, media reports said.
The company said the allegations against Shankar Mishra, 34, were "deeply disturbing".
"Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal behaviour and we find these allegations deeply disturbing. This individual has been terminated from Wells Fargo," the company said in a statement this evening, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, Shankar Mishra has gone into hiding as a lookout notice or airport alert has been put out as the police hunt for him.
On Thursday, Delhi Police said that the accused is a resident of Mumbai, but his possible location is in some other state and the police team has reached there. “We will arrest the accused at the earliest," Delhi Police was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Delhi Police said it has formed teams to nab the man who urinated on his elderly co-passenger onboard an Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26 last year.
Shankar Mishra allegedly unzipped and urinated on the elderly woman in the business class of an Air India flight from New York to Delhi.
To everyone's shock, when the flight landed, Shankar Mishra was allowed to leave without any repercussions.
A case has been lodged under sections 354 (sexual harassment), 294 (obscene act in public), 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman), 510 (misconduct in public by a drunken person) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 23 of the Indian Aircraft Act after Air India filed a complaint in the incident.
Air India didn't complain to the police until this week, only after the woman's letter to the group chairman of Air India, N Chandrasekaran, surfaced.
The victim has said that she was made to negotiate with him in her already “distraught” state.
The Air India crew let him sit in front of the elderly woman and apologize in spite of her asserting that she did not wish to interact with him. The man “started crying and profusely apologizing to me, begging me not to lodge a complaint against him because he is a family man who did not want his wife and child to be affected by this incident”.
The victim has also stated that the crew remained insensitive to the distress the obscene incident had caused her and rejected her request for a different seat. Hence, she was forced to sit in the same “soiled” seat even as the airline had other vacant business class seats.
The crew lacked good judgment on the number of drinks served to passengers, and the airline only partially reimbursed the victim for the flight.
The victim has alleged that the crew was not proactive in managing a very sensitive and traumatic situation and she had to advocate for herself throughout and waited for long periods of time to get a response.
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