US bank Wells Fargo fired a senior Indian executive on Friday who is wanted by police for urinating on a passenger on an Air India flight.
Shankar Mishra, who was the bank’s vice president of operations in India according to local media, was fired after a 72-year-old woman wrote to Air India management to complain about the incident that happened in November.
“Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal conduct and we find these allegations deeply troubling,” the company said in a statement. “This person has been fired from Wells Fargo,” he added, without naming Mishra or specifying his position.
The bank said it was “cooperating with authorities” and asked that any further questions be directed to police.
Mishra, who was reportedly intoxicated during the journey from New York to New Delhi on Nov. 26, is in limbo after the airline filed a criminal complaint.
Delhi police said the suspect is on the run and in contact with his family.
However, in a statement issued by Mishra’s lawyers and distributed by local media, Shankar Mishra said that he had already solved the problem by compensating the woman at the time of the accident.
“It is clear from the WhatsApp messages between the suspect and the lady that the suspect washed the clothes and bags on November 28 and delivered them on November 30,” the statement read, according to India Today.
Air India, recently bought by the Tata Group after decades under state control, has faced a flurry of criticism for its handling of the woman’s complaint.
India’s aviation regulator has reprimanded Air India’s management for failing to report the incident. “The behavior of the airline in question appears to be unprofessional and has led to a systematic failure,” India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement.
Source: DN
