Did not intend to outrage complainant's modesty, Shankar Mishra tells court

Shankar Mishra the man accused of urinating on an elderly woman copassenger on an Air India flight told a Delhi court on Wednesday his act was not driven by sexual desire nor aimed at outraging the complainants modesty as he sought bail in the caseThe complainants counsel opposed Mishras bail application claiming she was being threatenedIm regularly receiving messages threatening me Accuseds father sent me a message and said karma will hit you and then deleted the message Theyre sending me messages and deleting it This needs to stop Air India instead of separating the accused and complainant tried to mediate the crime the counsel saidMetropolitan Magistrate Komal Garg reserved the order on the bail application of MishraNobody should have to go through something like that It was revolting I feel bad for the poor lady It was appalling However was the unzipping aimed at sexual desire No Was any of this act aimed at outraging her modesty No the counsel for the accused said while fervently appealing for bailHe added the driving force behind the incident was not guided by lust I was not that man And the complainants complaint at the time does not claim thatMishras counsel referred to his plight after the sordid episode on the flight from New York to New Delhi on November 26 last yearAlso Read Air India peeing incident Shankar Mishra sent to 14day judicial custodyHe has already suffered Hes sacked from job He is not a flight risk at risk of fleeing No allegation that I was some kind of menace running around with a knife he saidThe Delhi police opposed the bail application saying it was highly probable that if released on bail he will influence the complainant since he is from an influential and rich backgroundHis Mother and sister tried to contact the complainant police told the courtThe police also informed the court it has filed a revision petition against the denial of the accuseds custodyMany witnesses are to be examined including the captain and cabin crew it saidA sessions court is likely to take up the matter later in the dayThe counsel appearing the the complainant meanwhile alleged the accused offended her and has the audacity to say I was not a victim I had sought FIR It was based on his influence that the FIR was not registeredHe added that the complainant is unable to stay in Bangalore Theyre threatening me Not only by messages but by coming to my house her counsel allegedThe counsel for the accused however contested the claim of threat made by the complainants lawyerHer the victim womans soninlaw a New Yorkbased professor wrote me a mail saying I was to pay the full plane fare I had paid for dry cleaning But after the mail from soninlaw the money the accused had paid by way of compensation was returnedAfter hearing the arguments the court reserved its order on the bail applicationA magisterial court had sent Mishra to 14day judicial remand on Saturday denying police his custodyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever