New Delhi. Air India has banned Shankar Mishra for four months for urinating on an elderly female co-passenger. Sources gave this information on Thursday. He said that the airline has also filed an internal report on the matter. Mishra is accused of urinating on a female co-passenger on an Air India New York-New Delhi flight on November 26 last year in an inebriated condition. Air India initially banned the accused passenger from flying for 30 days and set up an internal committee to probe the lapses on the part of the crew in handling the situation, the report of which has now arrived. .
On January 7, the accused Shankar Mishra was sent to judicial custody for 14 days by the court. On January 4, on the complaint of the victim woman, the Delhi Police registered a case against the accused under sections 294, 354, 509, 510 of the Indian Penal Code and the Aircraft Act. On January 7, the Delhi Police arrested Shankar Mishra from the Sanjay Nagar area of ​​Bengaluru city, where the local police helped the Delhi Police.
Last week on January 13, the accused Shankar Mishra had told a Delhi court that he had not committed the objectionable act. Along with this, he alleged that it appears that the woman herself had urinated on herself. Despite the condemnation of the accused by some co-passengers regarding the alleged incident and WhatsApp messages of the accused with the victim regarding the incident, for the first time his lawyer claimed that the incident had not happened.
What did the victim say in the FIR?
According to the FIR registered on January 4, Shankar Mishra, who had allegedly urinated on a female co-traveller, had apologized to the victim and urged her not to complain, saying he did not want his wife and children to be troubled because of his act. be According to the FIR, the victim said that despite her unwillingness, she was asked to talk to the accused and settle the matter. According to the FIR, an inebriated male passenger sitting on seat 8A in ‘Business Class’ went near the seat of an elderly woman and urinated on her after the food was served in AI-102 flight on November 26. done.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : January 19, 2023, 16:25 IST
