Air India Pee Case: Shankar Mishra Is Sentenced To 14 Days In Judicial Custody

Air India Incident

Reports in recent days have described chaotic scenes at Delhi’s Air India  Airport’s Terminal 3. Long lines at airport entry points, immigration, check-in, and security checkpoints have caused significant delays for passengers, causing some to miss their flights. Similar reports of chaos at other airports across the country have circulated.

With a capacity of around 70 million passengers per year. The IGI airport is one of the busiest in the world. It was the tenth busiest airport in terms of seat capacity and frequency of domestic and international flights in October of this year.

But recently a shameful incident took place in the airport a passenger urignated on a women co-passenger and a senior  citizen. According to the sources the passenger was  drunk and was travelling from New York to Delhi. Officials said three Air India crew members joined the investigation at the Indira Gandhi International Airport police station here on Saturday in connection with the onboard urination case. According to a senior police officer, nine crew members were summoned, three of whom recorded their statements on Saturday morning.

According to officials, their statements will assist police in determining the sequence of the alleged event that occurred on the flight last November.

They were summoned on Friday, but because they were unavailable in the city. Police asked them to join the investigation on Saturday.

Judicial Custody

Shankar Mishra is sentenced to 14 days in judicial custody after allegedly urinating on a woman co-passenger, a senior citizen. While inebriated on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26 last year.

He was apprehended in Bengaluru.

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On January 4, the Delhi Police filed a FIR against him. Based on a complaint filed by the woman with Air India.

“A Delhi Police team arrested accused Shankar Mishra in the IGIA case in Bengaluru. He has been brought to Delhi. An investigation into the case is ongoing “Ravi Kumar Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Airport), stated.

The scenes at its international airport are disappointing for a country that aspires to be the world’s third largest economy by the end of the decade.