New Delhi: Shankar Mishra, the man who allegedly urinated on an Air India flight, has told a Delhi court on Friday that he did not commit the act and that it was his elderly co-passenger who urinated on herself.
The claim by Shankar Mishra and his lawyer came in response to a notice by the sessions court on an application by the Delhi Police requesting custody for questioning him.
Mishra had been sent to 14-day judicial remand on Saturday by a court that turned down the police’s police request for custody.
The claims are made for the first time since the event unfolded on an Air India New York-New Delhi flight on November 26 last year, flies in the face of denunciation of the accused by some of the co-passengers and even a string of WhatsApp exchanges he had with the victim woman which suggested the unsavoury incident indeed took place.
“I’m not the accused. There must be someone else. She herself urinated. She was suffering from some disease related to prostate. It was not him. The seating system was such that no one could go to her seat.
“Her seat could only be approached from behind, and in any case the 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 told court.
The judge was hearing Delhi police’s plea seeking custodial interrogation of the accused.