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NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have arrested an unruly airline passenger following a grievance by a girl aboard an Air India flight from New York that he urinated on her in enterprise class.

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Shankar Mishra was picked up by police within the southern metropolis of Bengaluru and delivered to the Indian capital on Saturday, New Delhi Police spokesperson Suman Nalva mentioned on Sunday.

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Nalva declined to say what Mishra advised investigators after his arrest. The Instances of India newspaper cited Mishra as saying that he was drunk and couldn’t consider what he had performed.

A New Delhi courtroom despatched him to jail for 14 days as police examine the grievance accusing Mishra of outraging the modesty of a girl in the course of the New York-New Delhi flight. If convicted, he faces as much as three years in jail.

Sugata Bhattacharjee, one other passenger on the flight, advised reporters he noticed Mishra consuming extreme liquor and that Mishra was speaking incoherently, asking him the identical query about his household a number of instances.

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Additionally Saturday, Air India issued written notices and grounded one pilot and 4 cabin crew because the incident triggered outrage on social media and amongst activists who mentioned that banning Mishra from flying for 30 days was not sufficient.

Air India filed a police grievance this week, although the incident occurred on Nov. 26. It mentioned the crew didn’t summon police upon touchdown in New Delhi as they believed that the 2 had sorted out the problem on their very own.

Indian media experiences mentioned Air India acted after being pressed by the household of the girl passenger, a senior citizen, to punish Mishra.

“Air India acknowledges that it may have dealt with these issues higher, each within the air and on the bottom and is dedicated to taking motion,” mentioned the airline’s CEO and managing director Campbell Wilson in a press release.

In the meantime, Mishra’s job as a Mumbai-based govt has been terminated by his employer Wells Fargo & Firm, an American multinational monetary providers firm, the agency mentioned in a press release on Friday.