In the Air India ‘peeing’ controversy, arrested Mumbai-resident Shankar Mishra did a U-turn by claiming that the aggrieved woman peed on herself. Mishra’s strange claim comes days after he was arrested for being in an inebriated state in an Air India flight and urinating on a female senior citizen passenger in the plane’s business-class. Mishra was arrested after an FIR was registered against him by the Delhi police.
Earlier on Friday, senior advocate Ramesh Gupta, who appeared for Shankar Mishra, claimed that it was the woman who was suffering from “medical condition” and urinated on her own and then proceeded to shift the blame on his client. Advocate Mishra also termed the investigation in the case to be a joke.
“I’m not the accused. There must be someone else. She herself urinated. She was suffering from some disease related to prostate. It was not him. The seating system was such that no one could go to her seat. Her seat could only be approached from behind, and in any case the the urine could not reach to seat’s front area. Also, the passenger sitting behind the complainant did not make any such complain,” advocate Gupta was quoted saying in the court, as per Indian Express.
Earlier this week, the court had refused a bail to Mishra.
The Facts of the Matter
Days after it was reported that a passenger urinated on a senior citizen female passenger aboard an Air India flight, the passenger has made a shocking claim. After being arrested for his conduct on the airplane, the accused, Shankar Mishra, spoke in the court today, and claimed that it was the woman who had actually urinated on herself.
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“Woman a Kathak Dancer, Peed on Self”
Appearing for Mishra, his counsel senior advocate Ramesh Gupta claimed that the woman’s seat was “blocked” and claimed that Mishra could not have walked all the way to her to urinate on her. Further, the advocate also claimed that as the woman is a Kathak dancer and has a medical condition, it was her who urinated on self.
“The seating system was such that no one could go to her seat. Her seat could only be approached from behind, and in any case the urine could not reach to seat’s front area,” Mishra’s counsel told in the court. “Also, the passenger sitting behind the complainant did not make any such complain,” he added.
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Shankar Mishra’s Advocate Slams Police & Media
Further, news agency ANI also quoted Mishra’s counsel making shocking claims of his innocence. “The woman has a problem with incontinence. She urinated on herself. She is a Kathak dancer, 80% of kathak dancers have this issue,” Mishra’s counsel told court.
The counsel also slammed the police and media to have spinned the incident out of context, making a mockery out of the case.
Meanwhile, the judge in the court responded to Mishra’s claims by adding that it was not impossible for him to go from one side of the flight to the other. He also added that Mishra had travelled in the flight and anybody could come and go to any seat in the plane. The judge also sought a diagram of the flight seating for further investigation.
Shankar Mishra was Denied Bail Recently
The development comes days after Mishra was denied a bail by the Metropolitan magistrate Komal Garg.
“The alleged act of accused of relieving himself upon the complainant is utterly disgusting and repulsive. The alleged act in itself is sufficient to outrage the modesty of any woman. Egregious conduct of the accused has shocked the civic consciousness and needs to be deprecated,” PTI quoted the judge saying.
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