Speaking to India Today, Shankar Mishra’s legal team claimed that their client is innocent, adding that they have evidence to prove that the woman peed on herself.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 13, 2023 21:19 IST
Shankar Mishra has been accused of peeing on a woman co-passenger on board an Air India flight.
By Nalini Sharma: The legal team representing Shankar Mishra, the man accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger on board an Air India flight, claimed that they have proof that the woman was suffering from a medical condition and had, in fact, peed on herself.
Shankar Mishra’s lawyer on Friday told a Delhi court that his client did not commit the offensive act and that the woman seemed to have urinated on herself. The lawyer’s statement added a fresh twist to the sordid Air India urination case.
India Today spoke to Shankar Mishra’s legal team after the court hearing on Friday. The lawyers maintained that Shankar Mishra is “innocent” of the crime he has been accused of.
Advocate Neeraj gupta, briefing counsel for Shankar Mishra, said, “It is a matter of fact that the elderly woman peed on herself.”
The legal team, however, refused to disclose on what basis they made the claim. “There is a lot more to this case than meets the eye,” they said.
Meanwhile, Shankar Mishra’s lawyer Ishane Sharma said, “The woman was sitting on 9A and there was another woman sitting next to her. They claim that he urinated in such a way that the woman next to her wasn’t at all affected.”
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“How is that possible, how is the other woman not enraged? This logic fails the basic physics and we have been saying this from the start. There have not been any old grudges between both of them, what was alleged does not make sense,” the advocate added.
“There is a lack of witnesses, the case came to light only when the woman had claimed herself about the happening,” Ishane Sharma was reported as saying by news agency ANI.
WHATS THE CASE?
Shankar Mishra was accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger while under the influence of alcohol in business class of an Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26 last year.
Delhi Police registered an FIR against him on January 4 on a complaint given by the woman to Air India and arrested him from Bengaluru last week.
A court later sent the accused to judicial remand for 14 days. Shankar Mishra had filed a bail plea, which was rejected by the court on Thursday.
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