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A vice president at banking giant Wells Fargo has been fired after he was accused of urinating on a 72-year-old woman while traveling between New York City and Mumbai.
The incident involving Shankar Mishra occurred on November 26 in the business class cabin of an Air India flight. While Mishra's lawyers have said that the senior citizen 'condoned' the act, according to multiple reports in India.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, Wells Fargo said the company 'holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal behavior and we find these allegations deeply disturbing.'
The press release went on to say that Mishra, 34, a vice president of operations in India, had been 'terminated.'
Multiple reports in India say that Mishra, a resident of Mumbai, was allegedly drunk at the time of the incident. Police in New Delhi have yet to question Mishra about the incident because they have not been able to locate him.
The incident involving Shankar Mishra, pictured here, occurred on November 26 in the business class cabin of an Air India flight
Through his lawyers, Mishra alleges that the woman 'condoned' the action and that he has compensated her as well as paid for her clothes and bags to be cleaned.
Mishra's lawyers says that they have What's App messages between the banking exec and the woman to back up their allegation. However, the lawyers said that the woman has since returned the compensation and made a report to Air India.
In the woman's complaint, the 72-year-old said that the incident occurred after the crew had served lunch and dimmed the lights. She accuses Mishra, who formerly worked at Citi Bank, of stumbling from a few seats back towards, unzipping his pants and urinating on her.
He only stopped when the passenger sitting beside her told him to, the woman wrote.
She said that she asked the cabin crew to arrange to have Mishra arrested upon landing. Instead, she was forced to sit near him in crew seats for the duration of the flight with the captain forbidding her from sitting in first class, where there were empty seats.
The crew did give
