Shankar Mishra, the man who allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger on an Air India flight from New York, has been sacked by US financial services company Wells Fargo. 


The company on Friday said it has sacked Shankar Mishra saying that the allegations were "deeply disturbing", reported PTI. 


"This individual has been terminated from Wells Fargo," the firm said in a statement. 


The statement further added that it holds its employees to the highest standards of professional and personal behaviour and "we find these allegations deeply disturbing."  


"We are cooperating with law enforcement and ask that any additional inquiry be directed to them," the statement further read. 


However, in a bid to defend Shankar Mishra, his father Shyam Mishra on Friday said on camera that "perhaps he (his son) was being blackmailed". He also claimed that the case against his son is "false". 


"She (victim) had demanded payment and it was made. Don't know what happened next. Must have demanded something that perhaps wasn't met that upset her. Perhaps there was blackmailing, there must be something," he said, reported ANI. 


Shyam Mishra claimed that his son slept in the flight and was questioned by the airline staff after he woke up. 


"False case. My son hadn't slept for 30-35 hrs. After dinner, he might've consumed the drink given by the crew and then slept. From what I understand, he was questioned by airline staff after he woke up," he added. 


According to ANI, Shyam Mishra said, "I don't think he would do it. She (the victim) is a 72-year-old woman, she is like his mother. He (the accused, his son) is a 34-year-old man. How can he do it? He is married and has an 18-year-old daughter." 


When asked about his son's whereabouts, Shyam Mishra said he was not aware at all. "We are also trying to talk to him. I don't know (where he is)... I just want facts should be told, what is being presented is away from the truth," he said. 


Earlier on Friday, counsel for Shankar Mishra, said "the complaint was a malicious after-thought". 


Advocate Ishanee Sharma said, "If you go through WhatsApp messages between the accused and the woman, it clearly shows that the accused has gotten clothes-bags cleaned." Sharma said that the victim returned the money.  


"She accepted compensation and not used words like 'I don't need it' or 'This won't do' in any message. Suddenly there was an after-thought, I want to call it a malicious after-thought, where they returned the money and said, 'this isn't done and don't keep any contact with us'," ANI quoted the lawyer as saying. 


"This complaint thing was an after-thought. There's no eyewitness account. Nobody came out to say that they have seen the incident happening. How is that possible? The plane had more people besides the two people in question. There are a lot of loopholes," said Sharma. 


Air India on Wednesday imposed a 30-day flying ban on Shankar Mishra and Delhi Police has registered a FIR over the shocking incident. The Police have also formed teams to trace him. 


Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) also launched an investigation into the incident while 
Air India has set up an internal panel to probe whether there were lapses on part of the crew in addressing the situation. Air India has banned the passenger for 30 days, the maximum it is permitted to do unilaterally, the ANI report mentioned. 


The National Commission for Women also took cognisance of the incident.  
 
The woman passenger had also complained about her "traumatic experience" to Grievance Air Sewa,  


Shankar Mishra allegedly urinated on the elderly woman onboard an Air India flight between New York and Delhi on November 26 last year. 


 


(With Inputs From ANI)