New Delhi: In a bizarre twist to the Air India pee-gate case, accused Shankar Mishra on Friday told a Delhi Sessions court that he did not urinate on the elderly female co-passenger, she herself did.
“The complainant woman’s seat was blocked. It wasn’t possible for him (Mishra) to go there. 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 lawyer Ramesh Gupta told ANI.
The lawyer said the elderly woman was suffering from some prostate-related disease.
“It was not him (Mishra). The seating arrangement was such that no one could go to her seat,” the lawyer said.
The lawyer slammed police and media, saying that they had made fun of the case.
The lawyer said according to the FIR, the female complainant said the man sitting on 8A urinated and Mishra was not sitting on 8A, and could not have urinated on the seat.
The sessions court judge said by stating that it’s 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,” the judge said, asking for a diagram of the flight seating.
Mishra’s lawyer contended that the lady passenger’s seat could only be approached from behind.
“In any case, the urine could not reach the seat’s front area. Also, the passenger sitting behind the complainant did not make any such complaint,” the defence advocate told the court.
Mishra, who allegedly urinated on the woman in an inebriated condition in business class of the Air India flight on November 26, 2022, was denied bail.
After the incident surfaced in the first week of January, Mishra was arrested on January 7 from Bengaluru and sent to 14-day judicial custody.
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