In a new update of the Air India incident where a male passenger urinated on a 70-year-old female passenger sitting next to him, the accused has claimed that he did not commit the offence.
The accused, namely Shankar Mishra, also added that the complainant herself could have urinated on her own seat, while on board the aircraft bound to New Delhi from New York.
Mishra, through senior lawyer Ramesh Gupta submitted, “The complainant woman’s seat was blocked. It wasn’t possible for him (Mishra) to go there. The woman has a problem of incontinence. She urinated on herself. She is a Kathak dancer, 80 percent of kathak dancers have this issue,” according to a report by Asian News International (ANI).
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Gupta, who expressed his concerns over the Delhi Police investigation, submitted that there must be someone else.
“She herself urinated. The seating system was such that no one could go to her seat. The passenger sitting behind the complainant did not make any such complaint,” he said.
According to the report, Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla said “it is not impossible to go from one side of the flight to the other. Sorry, but I have travelled as well. Anybody from any row can come around and go to any seat.”
Mishra was arrested on January 6, 2023 by Delhi police from Bengaluru after allegedly urinating on the woman whilst intoxicated. The incident took place in a business class Air India flight on November 26, 2022.
The Delhi Police had registered an FIR against Mishra on January 4 on the grounds of the complaint given by the woman passenger to the state-backed airline.
According to ANI, the police registered an FIR under sections 354, 509, and 510 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 23 of the Indian Aircraft Act. Both the accused and the victim are from outside Delhi.
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