Shankar Mishra, who was apprehended last year for urinating on a woman on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi, was "incoherent" after too many beers, according to a co-passenger, NDTV reported.
Sugata Bhattacharjee, a doctor from the United States who was sat next to Shankar Mishra in business class on the November 26 flight, claimed he informed the staff of his inebriated state.
Speaking with NDTV, Dr Bhattacharjee stated: "When he was asking me the same question multiple times, I realised that he may be incoherent. I did flag it to the crew, and he just smiled."
Shankar Mishra, who was fired by Wells Fargo following the event, informed Dr Bhattacharjee that he was drinking since it had been a hard day and he hadn't slept well.
"He told me he drank to get a good night's sleep," Dr Bhattacharjee was quoted by NDTV in its report.
Shortly, after this exchange, Shankar Mishra allegedly went to a 70-year-old woman, unzipped, and urinated on her. Mishra went away once the flight arrived in Delhi, with no action taken by Air India. A day later, the woman wrote to the head of the Air India company about the heinous occurrence. Air India filed a police report only on January 4, stating it didn't go to the police since it thought both sides had "resolved the situation".
Mishra was apprehended on Friday in Bengaluru, six weeks after his heinous crime.
Dr. Bhattacharjee stated that he also protested to the airline, but nothing occurred.
"My moral responsibility was to stand up for a fellow passenger, and that is why I wrote a two-page complaint. And it went nowhere," he said, NDTV reported.
N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, has recognised that Air India's response should have been quicker.
"We fell short of addressing this situation the way it should have been," Chandrasekaran said in a statement on Sunday.
Mishra has been kept in judicial detention for the next two weeks.