Shankar Mishra was picked up by police in the southern city of Bengaluru and brought to the Indian capital on Saturday.
Air India Airbus A320 aircraft as seen flying over the mountains of Kathmandu valley and landing in Tribhuvan International Airport KTM. The arriving Airbus A320-200 passenger plane of the Indian carrier has the registration VT-EXD and is powered byIndian police have arrested an unruly airline passenger following a complaint by a woman aboard an Air India flight from New York that he urinated on her in business class.
Nalva declined to say what Mishra told investigators after his arrest. The Times of India newspaper cited Mishra as saying that he was drunk and could not believe what he had done.A New Delhi court sent him to prison for 14 days as police investigate the complaint accusing Mishra of outraging the modesty of a woman during the New York-New Delhi flight. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison.
Also Saturday, Air India issued written notices and grounded one pilot and four cabin crew as the incident triggered outrage on social media and among activists who said that banning Mishra from flying for 30 days was not enough.
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