Ishaan Sharma, lawyer for accused Shankar Mishra, who allegedly urinated on a woman air india flight Friday said there was a paucity of witnesses in the ‘pee-gate’ and the matter came to light only when the woman claimed to be herself, according to news agency ANI.
The lawyer countered the claim that Mishra urinated in a manner that did not affect the passenger sitting next to the victim and said the allegations made no sense.
Sharma told ANI, “The woman was sitting on 9A and another woman was sitting next to her. She claims that she urinated in such a way that the woman next to her was not affected at all.”
“How is it possible, how is the other woman not offended? This argument defies basic physics and we have been saying this from the beginning. There is no old enmity between the two, the allegations made do not make any sense.” she added.
Meanwhile, Shankar Mishra told a Delhi court on Friday that he did not urinate on the elderly woman, but “urinated on himself”.
‘I didn’t urinate on the complainant,’ Shankar Mishra told a Delhi court when he was produced for an ongoing case in which a seventy-year-old woman alleged that the vice-president of Wells Fargo’s India chapter asked her to go to Delhi on 26 He had urinated on her in a drunken state on the flight. November 2022.
The surprising turn of comments comes at a time when a co-traveller, a doctor of audiology in the United States, has also corroborated the allegations of the elderly woman.
A series of WhatsApp exchanges of Mishra with the victim woman that surfaced earlier suggested that the untoward incident had indeed taken place.
Shankar Mishra and his lawyer insisted that the former had not committed the offending act. Claimed by his lawyer for the first time after the scandalous incident Air India New York-New Delhi flight Last year on 26 November.
The accused was arrested by the Delhi Police on January 6, 2023 from Bengaluru. Mishra had allegedly urinated on a 70-year-old woman in an inebriated condition in the business class of an Air India flight on November 26 last year.
Delhi Police had registered an FIR against her on January 4 on a complaint given by the woman to Air India. The police have 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 residents of outside Delhi.
US-based financial services company Wells Fargo also sacked its employee Shankar Mishra last week.
(With ANI inputs)
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