"I don't want to comment on the statements made against my son. A young scholar, who is the son of an MIT professor, downed a cocktail of whiskey and wine during a flight and slammed his seat into a lady doctor during a legroom row, branding the cabin crew "fascists" as they tried to calm him.Kabir Banerjee, 22, (pictured) who is studying philosophy at University College London, continuously complained about a lack of space on the British Airways flight and was arrested after the plane landed at Heathrow Airport.He pleaded guilty to assaulting Dr. Alexandra Damazer and being drunk on an aircraft during the Boston to London flight on November 11, last year and was yesterday conditionally discharged for two years and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to the victim.During the flight Banerjee had three glasses of wine, one whiskey, had been drinking before boarding the plane and had taken sedatives for insomnia.Prosecutor Mr. Douglas Adams told Isleworth Crown Court: "He was drunk and there was some medication he has taken for insomnia that did not help."Dr. It is their prerogative, their freedom of speech. "You threatened her and you deliberately slammed your seat backwards and the cabin staff were subjected to rudeness by you." Susan Dynarski, Courtney Coile, Tomomi Kumagai, Arundhati Tuli Banerjee and Kabir's thoughts on what ESTHER DUFLO is really like. But such comments won't help them prove their own point of view," she told reporters.Union minister Piyush Goyal had described the Nobel winner as a "Left-leaning" person.