NEW DELHI, Jan. 16 -- The uncouth manner in which a 34-year-old inebriated "business class" passenger urinated on an elderly fellow passenger in the mid-air on New York-Delhi Air India flight last November 26 is horrendous.

In brief, reportedly, when the lights were turned off in the aircraft after lunch, the drunken man walked over to the victim's seat and urinated on her and stayed there until one of his fellow passengers urged him to leave. More disconcerting is that despite her complaining, the airline crew failed to act. She was allegedly made to sit in the soiled seat and even though some first-class seats were said to be vacant, it was not offered to her. To cut the story short, after standing for 20 minutes, the victim was offere...