AIR INDIA has banned Shankar Mishra – accused of urinating on an aged girl passenger in November – from its flights for a length for four months. This four-month ban is appropriate from January 18 and is over and above the one-month ban implemented by the airline on December 20.
“The self sustaining three-member Within Committee, below the Chairmanship of the earlier District Deem, has concluded that Shankar Mishra is roofed below the definition of ‘unruly passenger’, and is banned from flying for a length of four months as per the linked provisions of the Civil Aviation Requirements,” Air India talked about in a assertion.
The airline talked about it has shared a duplicate of the Within Committee report with the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and can additionally be intimating other airways working in the country.
Authorities sources, however, talked about the report might perchance presumably maybe well no longer be binding on other airways but other airways might perchance presumably maybe well additionally ban Mishra since he has been categorized “unruly” by one airline.
Mishra, a resident of Mumbai, used to be arrested by Delhi Police from Bengaluru earlier this month. He is in police custody. He has denied in court docket that he urinated on the girl.
Air India first received the criticism from the girl on November 27 and started enticing in correspondence with the affected passenger’s family on November 30. It used to be made responsive to the drawback after the complainant wrote a letter to Tata Sons chairperson N Chandrasekharan, alleging that her dresses, shoes and baggage smelt of urine and the crew did miniature to lend a hand her out of the enlighten.
Air India had then initiated the DGCA-prescribed Within Committee that used to be tasked with assessing incidents on December 10. The committee on December 20 build a 30-day interim dawdle ban – maximum an airline might perchance presumably maybe well make sooner than the inquiry is total – that used to be to prevent on January 20.
On the airline’s criticism on December 28, the Delhi Police filed an FIR on January 4 and initiated an inquiry into the matter.
