Bank executive fired for allegedly urinating on 72-year-old woman on flight

A bank executive has lost his high-paying job after he allegedly urinated on a fellow passenger during a flight. Warning: Confronting.

Shankar Mishra lost his job at Well Fargo after an alleged incident on a flight on November 26. Picture: LinkedIn

A high-flying bank executive lost his job after he allegedly urinated on a 72-year-old woman on a recent Air India flight.

Shankar Mishra, who worked for US bank Wells Fargo at its Mumbai corporate office, was identified as the executive who was terminated, according to the English-language news site of German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Mishra was vice president of the bank’s Indian operations when he boarded a flight from New York to New Delhi in business class.

During the flight, a fellow passenger said Mishra, who appeared “completely inebriated”, stood up and began urinating all over her.

“He unzipped his pants and urinated on me and kept standing there until the person sitting next to me tapped him and told him to go back to his seat, at which point he staggered back to his seat,” the woman wrote in her complaint, which was posted on Twitter.

Ok, not defending Shankar Mishra for his misdemeanor but is it fair to publicly ostracize someone by sharing his pictures in media; whereas murderers, rapists faces are kept under wraps?

Also, let’s evaluate this situation a little more taking into consideration, the complaint pic.twitter.com/rMn4fpMlWB

— Varun Uppal (@varunuppal) January 7, 2023

In her complaint letter to the airline, the woman wrote she was then offered a “small crew seat used by the airline staff, where I sat for about two hours.”

To her horror, she wrote that airline crew had asked her to return to the urine-soaked seat, which by this time was covered with a sheet, but she refused.

“I was then given the steward seat for the rest of the journey,” she wrote.

The woman was also outraged that airline staff ignored her request to not see Mishra after the alleged incident.

She claims that Mishra broke down in tears after “sobering up” and began apologising, before begging her not to file a complaint.

“In my already distraught state, I was further disoriented by being made to confront and negotiate with the perpetrator of the horrific incident in close quarters,” the woman wrote.

“I told him that his actions were inexcusable, but in the face of his pleading and begging in front of me, and my own shock and trauma, I found it difficult to insist on his arrest or to press charges against him.”

Local media reports Mishra has since been arrested and is facing charges of committing an obscene act in a public place, assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty, and misconduct in public by a drunken person.

An lawyer for Mishra told local media that the banking executive reached a financial settlement with the unidentified victim as compensation.

Mishra reportedly also arranged to have the woman’s clothing and bag cleaned after the incident.

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Shankar Mishra lost his job at Well Fargo after an alleged incident on a flight on November 26. Picture: LinkedIn

The woman blasted the airline for initially refusing to reimburse her ticket. It was only after the woman’s son-in-law sent to a complaint to Air India on the day after she landed that they agreed to reimburse the ticket. The airline said it issued a full refund weeks later.

Campbell Wilson, the CEO of Air India’s parent company, Tata Group, issued a statement apologising for the airline’s conduct and announcing that the company had laid off the pilot and four crew members involved in the incident.

“Internal investigations into whether there were lapses by other staff are ongoing on aspects including the service of alcohol on flight, incident handling, complaint registration on board and grievance handling,” Wilson said in a statement.

“As a responsible airline brand, we have initiated the following steps with a view to materially strengthen and improve how such incidents would be addressed in future.”

Wells Fargo released a statement to local media confirming the man involved had been terminated.

– reporting by New York Post