Air India bans Shankar Mishra, who peed on woman, for 4 months

Shankar Mishra has been accused of peeing on a woman co-passenger on board an Air India flight.

By Milan Sharma: Air India has banned Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on an elderly woman on a New York-New Delhi flight in November last year, from flying for four months, sources told India Today. The airline has also filed an internal report on the matter.

Other airlines will also follow suit, DGCA sources told India Today.

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.

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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.

Shankar Mishra was nabbed from Bengaluru on January 7 after days of him evading arrest. He first said that he paid compensation to the woman and the matter was settled. But later, during a court hearing, Mishra's lawyer accused the woman of urinating on herself.

“I'm not the accused. There must be someone else. It seems she herself urinated. She was suffering from some disease related to prostate which several 'Bharatanatyam dancers' seem to suffer from. It was not me. The seating system was such that no one could go to her seat,” Shankar Mishra told the court.

AIR INDIA URINATION CASE

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

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.

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