30-day ban, FIR lodged: Air India, Delhi Police on drunk man peeing on passenger

Air India on Wednesday said it has taken a “very serious view” of the incident where a drunk man allegedly urinated on a female passenger on a New York-Delhi flight in November last year. The airline said a police complaint has already been lodged and, as a first step, it has banned the passenger in question for 30 days. Air India further stated that it has constituted an internal committee to probe lapses on part of the airline’s crew and “address the deficiencies that delayed quick redressal of the situation.”

The incident came to light after a letter from the woman to Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran, first reported by the Times of India, surfaced in which she had recalled her harrowing experience on the flight. The woman alleged that the drunk man walked to her seat, unzipped his pants and urinated. After urinating, the man continued to expose his private parts and only moved when other passengers asked him to leave. The woman’s clothes, shoes, and the bag got soaked in urine and the crew gave her a set of new clothes and put sheets on her urine-soaked seat.