Air India urinating case: Delhi cops arrest accused man from Bengaluru

Shankar Mishra, the man accused of urinating on an elderly woman on an Air India flight, was arrested by the Delhi police on Saturday from Bengaluru. 

An FIR was registered against him and a lookout notice was issued to prevent him from leaving the country.

A team of the Delhi Police had reached Bengaluru after getting some leads about his whereabouts. 

Though he switched off his phone, he was using his social media accounts to communicate with his friends, sources reported quoting police sources.

Mishra allegedly in an inebriated condition, urinated on his co-passenger, in the business class of the Air India New York-Delhi flight in November. 

According to reports, he later apologised to the woman and begged her not to report him to the police. 

According to the FIR registered on Wednesday, the woman had informed the crew that she did not want to see her tormentor's face and was "stunned" when the offender was brought before her and he "started crying and profusely apologising". 

The woman also accused the crew of being "deeply unprofessional" and said they were not proactive in managing a "very sensitive and traumatic situation".

Defending his son, the accused's father, Shyam Mishra, said the case is false and the 72-year-old woman is like a “mother” to him. 

Meanwhile, US financial services company Wells Fargo where Shankar was a vice president sacked him, saying the allegations against him are "deeply disturbing".

In a statement issued through his lawyers Ishanee Sharma and Akshat Bajpai, Mishra said on Friday he had got the woman's clothes and bags cleaned on November 28 and the same were delivered to her on November 30.

Air India CEO Campbell Wilson, in an internal communication to employees, told airline staff to report any improper behaviour on aircraft to authorities at the earliest even if the matter appeared to have been settled. 

Taking note of the incident that has sparked widespread outrage, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked the airlines to use “restraining devices” to control unruly passengers when all measures are exhausted.