A look out circular (LoC) has been issued against the man who had urinated on an elderly woman aboard an Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26 last year. Only 4 crew members have joined the investigation so far. Others are to join the probe on Friday.
The Delhi Police had a day ago written to the immigration authorities to issue a lookout circular against the accused, identified as Shankar Mishra, vice-president of a financial services company.
Amid the search for the accused, his five-day-old WhatsApp status saying, “Mistakes don’t DEFINE us, Mistakes REFINE us!” (sic), has emerged. A source said that a team of Delhi police officers is in Mumbai to enquire about Mishra’s whereabouts from his relatives.
A team of officers also went to Bengaluru that is thought to be his workplace’s official address — going by the technical surveillance. However, the team found that the accused was on leave. “Some of his relatives also stay in Bangalore and police are also in touch with them,” an official said.
A team of News18 went to the accused’s Mumbai address, where the family’s maid had arrived. The house help told News18 that she had come to work but saw the door locked. She claimed that Mishras were in the house till day before yesterday. “I had an off on Thursday, and when I returned on Friday, no one seems to be here,” she said.
The police said Mishra is the vice-president of the India Chapter of an American multinational financial services company headquartered in California. “We have written to the authorities in the immigration department to issue lookout circular against the accused to prevent him from leaving the country,” a senior police official said.
He added, “Mishra is a resident of Mumbai. We had sent our teams to Mumbai at his known locations but he was absconding. Our teams are trying to trace him”.
On Thursday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued showcause notices to the airline and pilots and cabin crew of flight AI-102 for not following procedures. The regulator, which termed the conduct of A-I in handling a passenger to be “unprofessional” has given the airline and crew two weeks to reply.
Based on the victim’s complaint, a case was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 294 (obscene act in public place), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 510 (misconduct in public by a drunken person) as well as under Aircraft Rules.
Air India on Wednesday had said that it has imposed a 30-day flying ban on the accused passenger and set up an internal panel to probe whether there were lapses on part of the crew in addressing the situation.
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