Banking giant Wells Fargo fired India Operations Vice President Shankar Mishra for allegedly urinating on an elderly woman during a flight from New York to New Delhi in November.
"Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal behavior and we find these allegations deeply disturbing," the bank said in a statement Friday without naming Shankar. "This individual has been terminated from Wells Fargo. We are cooperating with law enforcement and ask that any additional inquiries be directed to them."
Germany's Deutsche Welle news outlet reported that Indian authorities arrested Mishra in Bangalore and then transported him to New Delhi for an investigation into the incident.
According to a complaint to the airline filed by the elderly female victim, published on Twitter by Indian journalist Barkha Dutt, the incident took place Nov. 26 on an Air India flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to New Delhi.
In the complaint, the victim said that a "completely inebriated" Mishra walked to the woman's business class seat during the flight, unzipped his pants and urinated on her, soaking her clothes, bag and seat.
"He unzipped his pants and urinated on me and kept standing there until the person sitting next to me tapped him and told him to go back to his seat," the complaint said.
According to the complaint, the airline did little to assist the woman throughout the rest of the flight or on the ground after the plane landed.
"My clothes, shoes and bag were soaked in urine," the woman's complaint read. "The bag contained my passport, travel documents and currency. The flight staff refused to touch them, sprayed my bag and shoes with disinfectant, and took me to the bathroom and gave me a set of airline pajamas and socks."
The woman said in the complaint she was first asked by the flight crew to return to the seat and was refused an empty seat in first class by the pilot.
The complaint also said she was "forced" to hear Mishra apologize to her.
"Not only was the Air India crew deeply unprofessional ... the crew did not show good judgment about how much alcohol to serve a passenger," she said in the complaint.
According to Deutsche Welle, Mishra issued a statement through an attorney saying that he had reached a settlement with the woman and "paid her compensation."
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