Air India urination case: I did not pee on woman, accused Shankar Mishra tells court | India News
“I did not urinate on complainant. The complainant woman’s seat was blocked. It wasn’t possible for him (Mishra) to go there. The woman has a problem of incontinence. She urinated on herself. She is a Kathak dancer, 80% of kathak dancers have this issue,” Shankar Mishra’s counsel told Delhi court.
“Her seat could only be approached from behind, and in any case the urine could not reach to seat’s front area. Also, the passanger sitting behind the complainant did not make any such complain,” defence advocate said. The judge was hearing Delhi police’s plea seeking custodial interrogation of the accused.
Last week, a team of four police officials from Delhi arrested Mishra from Bengaluru.
Mishra has been accused of allegedly urinated on a 70-year-old woman in an inebriated condition in the business class of the Air India flight on November 26 last year.
He was sacked from US financial services firm Wells Fargo on earlier this month. “Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards of professional and personal behaviour and we find these allegations deeply disturbing. This individual has been terminated from Wells Fargo,” the company said.
The senior citizen, who was too shocked to react, had written to Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran about the incident.
Calling them ‘unprofessional’, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday issued showcause notices to Air India officials, including all the pilots and cabin crew members who operated the New York to Delhi flight on November 26.
