AI urination incident: Civil Aviation Ministry directs airline to conduct probe

Taking serious note of the Air India urination incident the Ministry of Civil Aviation directed the airline to conduct an internal probe into the matter and submit the report as soon as possible said top government sources on ThursdayA man allegedly urinated on an elderly woman copassenger during a New YorkDelhi flight in November last year The shocking incident occurred on November 26 when the flight was on its way from John F Kennedy international airport in New York to Delhi The inebriated male passenger allegedly urinated on an elderly woman and flashed his private partsMinistry of Civil Aviation takes serious note on Air India urination case MoCA has asked Air India to provide all the details of the incident MoCA has also asked Air India to hold an internal probe into the matter and submit the report as soon as possible The probe should be timebound the top government sources told ANIAccording to the sources the Ministry has asked Air India to submit a detailed probe report soon after the incident surfacedHad the victim informed on the very day of the incident strongest actions would have been taken by now the sources addedWe encourage people to complain about all their grievances on the Air Sewa portal We will ensure speedy justice to the victim We asked Air India to submit a detailed probe report soon after the incident surfaced it addedThe sources further said that if these allegations are found true then the Ministry will take the strictest action possible but first it is waiting for the internal report of Air IndiaWe would expect Air India too to take strict actions against crew members it addedMeanwhile Delhi Police said that the man who allegedly urinated on an elderly woman copassenger onboard an Air India flight was a resident of Mumbai and will be arrested at the earliestThe accused is a resident of Mumbai but his possible location is in some other state and the police team has reached there We will arrest the accused at the earliest said Delhi PoliceAlso Read Delhi Police files FIR against man who urinated at Air India flight in inebriateThe Police on Wednesday filed an FIR on the shocking incident based on a complaint by Air IndiaThe police have registered an FIR in the matter under sections 354 509 and 510 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 23 of the Indian Aircraft Act Both the accused and the victim are from outside DelhiAir India on Wednesday imposed a 30day flying ban on the passengerWhile the Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA also launched an investigation Air India has set up an internal panel to probe whether there were lapses on the part of the crew in addressing the situation that caused distress to the womanThe National Commission for Women has taken cognisance of the incident onboard the Air India flight in which the inebriated male passenger also flashed his private parts at the elderly womanThe NCW has sought a detailed action taken report on the matter within seven days from the Delhi Police CommissionerIn her letter to the chairman of the board of Tata Sons N Chandrasekaran the woman passenger who is in her seventies called the flight experience extremely traumatic and expressed deep disappointment over the incident in the business class section of the flightIn her letter the woman said the appalling incident occurred shortly after the lunch was served and the lights were switched off as she was getting ready to sleep The flight had taken off from John F Kennedy international airport in New YorkShe said that within minutes an inebriated male walked to her seat and unzipped his pants relieving himself and continued to expose his private parts until another passenger asked him to return to his seatI am writing to express my deep disappointment regarding the appalling incident that occurred during my business class trip on flight AI102 commencing in NY JFK yesterday 26th November at 1230 pm and arriving this afternoon in New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport at approximately 130 pm This has been the most traumatic flight that I have ever experiencedDuring the course of the flight shortly after lunch was served and the lights were switched off I was getting ready to sleep and another passenger walked to my seat completely inebriated He unzipped his pants relieved himself and continued to expose me to his private parts The passenger sitting next to me asked him to return to his seat He did not respond immediately but after a few moments left the area the letter readThe woman passenger who is in her seventies in the letter also highlighted that when asked for a change of seat the airline refused and informed her there were no seats available She also complained about being allotted a small seat used by the airline staff by one of the senior stewardessesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday 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