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.
Nalva declined to say what Mishra advised investigators after his arrest. The Times of India newspaper cited Mishra as saying that he was drunk and couldn’t consider what he had achieved.
A New Delhi courtroom despatched him to jail for 14 days as police examine the criticism accusing Mishra of outraging the modesty of a lady through 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 occasions.
Also 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 criticism this week, although the incident occurred on November 26. It mentioned the crew didn’t summon police upon touchdown in New Delhi as they believed that the 2 had sorted out the difficulty on their very own.
Indian media reviews 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 could have handled these matters better, both in the air and on the ground and is committed to taking action,” mentioned the airline’s CEO and managing director Campbell Wilson in an announcement.
Meanwhile, Mishra’s job as a Mumbai-based govt has been terminated by his employer Wells Fargo & Company, an American multinational monetary companies firm, the agency mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
