Wells Fargo’s VP of Operations Shankar Mishra fired after urinating on a 72-year-old woman

A vice president of banking giant Wells Fargo has been fired after he was accused of urinating on a 72-year-old woman on a trip between New York City and Mumbai.

The Shankar Mishra incident happened on November 26 in the business class cabin of an Air India flight. According to multiple reports in India, Mishra’s lawyers claimed the senior “condoned” the act.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Wells Fargo said the company “holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal conduct and we find these allegations deeply disturbing”.

The press release went on to say that Mishra, 34, a vice president of operations in India, has been “quit”.

Multiple reports in India state that Mishra, a Mumbai resident, was allegedly intoxicated at the time of the incident. Police in New Delhi have yet to question Mishra about the incident as they have been unable to locate him.

The incident involving Shankar Mishra pictured here occurred on November 26 in the business class cabin of an Air India flight

Mishra, through his lawyers, claims that the woman “condoned” the action and that he compensated her and paid for her clothes and bags to be cleaned.

Mishra’s lawyers say they have What’s App messages between the bank manager and the woman to back up their claim. However, lawyers said the woman has since returned the compensation and reported to Air India.

In the woman’s complaint, the 72-year-old said the incident happened after the crew served lunch and dimmed the lights. She accuses Mishra, who used to work at Citi Bank, of stumbling backwards from a few seats, unbuttoning his pants and urinating on her.

The woman wrote that he only stopped when the passenger sitting next to her told him to.

She said she asked the cabin crew to arrange for Mishra’s arrest upon landing. Instead, she was forced to sit next to him in crew seats for the duration of the flight, with the captain forbidding her from sitting in first class where there were vacancies.

The crew gave her pajamas and shoes and sprayed disinfectant on her belongings.

She claims Mishra started sobbing and asked her not to press charges.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Wells Fargo says it “holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal conduct and we find these allegations deeply disturbing.”

During an interview with India Today TV, Mishra’s father, Shyam Mishra, said his son had not slept for 72 hours before urinating.

During an interview with India Today TV, Mishra’s father, Shyam Mishra, said his son had not slept for 72 hours before urinating.

He said: “This is a completely false case. My son came from the USA. He had not slept for 72 hours. Maybe he had a drink and slept on the flight. What happened next, even he doesn’t know. It’s very difficult to prove.’

The elder Mishra added, “I don’t think he would have done that. The woman is 72 years old, she is like a mother to him.” He further claimed that there were no eyewitnesses to the incident.

He also said he was unable to reach his son.

Mishra is accused of committing an obscene act, assault or criminal assault on a woman in a public place with intent to offend her modesty, words, gestures or actions intended to offend a woman’s modesty, and being guilty of intoxication in public.

Police in New Delhi have yet to question Mishra about the incident as they have been unable to locate him

After the incident, Air India faced criticism from the Directorate-General for Civil Aviation, which said in a statement: “The conduct of the airline concerned appears to be unprofessional and has resulted in a system failure.”

The victim’s statement to Air India, via NDTV, read: “I was stunned when he started crying and apologized profusely to me and asked me not to file a complaint against him because he is a family man and didn’t want his wife and his child are affected by this incident.’

She continued, “In my already distraught state, I was even further disoriented when I had to confront and negotiate with the perpetrator of the horrific incident at close range. I told him his actions were inexcusable, but given his pleading and begging in front of me and my own shock and trauma, I found it difficult to insist on his arrest or to press charges against him.’

Curiously, on December 6, an almost identical incident occurred on an Air India flight between Paris and New Delhi. A drunk male passenger is accused of urinating on a female passenger. According to NDTV, the victim did not press charges after receiving a written apology.