Air India urination incident: Shankar Mishra says woman urinated on own seat

After claiming that unzipping was not for the purpose of any sexual desire Shankar Mishra accused of urinating on an elderly female copassenger while in a drunken state on a New YorkNew Delhi flight last November told the court on Friday that it was the woman who peed on her own seatMishras claim came after a sessions court issued notice on an application by the Delhi Police requesting his custodyIm not the accused There must be someone else who peed or it must be her who urinated he told the courtHe further claimed that the woman was suffering from some prostaterelated diseaseMoreover he said that the seating system was such that no one could go to her seatHer seat was such that it could only be accessed from behind and in any case the urine could not reach the seats front area Also the person sitting behind the complainant did not make any such complaint he saidOn January 11 Mishras counsel contended that his actions while obscene were not intended to sexually harass the victimMetropolitan Magistrate Patiala House courts Komal Garg who had reserved the verdict earlier denied Mishras bail plea saying that the alleged act of accused of relieving himself upon the complainant is utterly disgusting and repulsive and the act itself is sufficient to outrage the modesty of a womanAs Mishra had failed to join the investigation even after notice under section 41A CrPC being issued to him his conduct does not inspire any confidence the court had observedAlso Read Air India urination incident Its a matter of personal anguish says Tata SonsAccuseds counsel Manu Sharma had argued that Mishra had not made any attempts to run away from the inquiry process by Air India while questioning the need for the issuance of a nonbailable warrant NBW in the caseOn January 7 the court sent Mishra to 14 days judicial custodyThe court had said The egregious conduct of the accused has shocked the civic consciousness and needs to be deprecatedThe court had also noted that the accused was voluntarily drunk and had consumed alcohol during the night and the said fact has not been denied by himIt has also come on record that accused has tried contacting the victim and the possibility of accused influencing the witnesses cannot be ruled out Further as per the report of IO the other witnesses are yet to be interrogated and the investigation is at a very initial stage the court had saidMishra has been booked under Sections 510 misconduct in public by a drunken person 509 insulting the modesty of a woman 294 sings recites or utters any obscene song ballad or words in or near any public place and 354 intending to outrage modesty of the Indian Penal Code as well as a section of the Aircraft Rules Act in a case registered at the IGI Airport police stationThis 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