21-year-old Indian urinates on co-traveller in American Airlines’ New York-New Delhi flight
The HinduAmerican Airlines handed over Aryan Vohra, 21, to the Central Industrial Security Force after he allegedly urinated on a male passenger on a flight from New York to Delhi on Saturday. Mr. Vohra was heavily intoxicated and allegedly misbehaved with a woman co-passenger who complained that he was leaning on her; he nearly sat on an infant on a different seat before the mother pushed him away, according to the official complaint filed by the airline to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, viewed by The Hindu. The police registered a case under Sections 510 and 294 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 22 and 23 of The Aircraft Rules Nearly six hours into the flight, which took off from New York at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Mr. Vohra walked to the first-class section looking for the restroom and appeared to be “disoriented”, following which the crew directed him to the business class lavatory but instead he emptied his bladder on a co-traveller. According to another complaint filed before the Station House Officer, Delhi Police, the airline’s chief security officer wrote that the offender refused to listen to crew instructions, was repeatedly arguing with them, was unwilling to be seated and was “continuously endangering the safety of the crew and the aircraft”.