The woman had filed a PIL in March saying she was constrained to method the highest court docket as a result of Air India and the DGCA failed to deal with her with care and accountability after the incident.
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The Supreme Court on May 8 agreed to study the plea of a 72-year-old woman, on whom a male co-passenger urinated on board an Air India flight in November final yr, in search of a course to the Centre, aviation regulator DGCA and airways to body an SOP to take care of such incidents.
A bench of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala took observe of the plea of the woman and issued notices to the Centre, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and all airways, together with Air India.
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The high court docket additionally sought the help of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was current within the case, in formulating the usual working process (SOP) and stuck the plea for listening to after the summer time trip in July.
The woman had filed a PIL in March saying she was constrained to method the highest court docket as a result of Air India and the DGCA failed to deal with her with care and accountability after the incident.
On January 31, a Delhi court docket had granted bail to Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on the woman co-passenger on the Air India flight from New York to Delhi.
The trial court docket had granted the reduction to Mr. Mishra on a private bond of ₹1 lakh and a surety of the like quantity.
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It had additionally imposed varied situations on him, together with that he is not going to tamper with proof, affect any witnesses or contact them in any method.
Mr. Mishra was additionally requested not to depart the nation with out the court docket’s prior permission and to be a part of the investigation and trial as and when known as by the investigating officer or the court docket involved.
Mr. Mishra was arrested from Bengaluru on January 6 and despatched to judicial custody by a court docket in New Delhi on January 7.
He allegedly urinated on the woman in an intoxicated situation within the enterprise class of the Air India flight on November 26 final yr.
