- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
In a shocking twist to the tale, the man, who was arrested from the Indian city of Bengaluru on January 8 for allegedly urinating on an elderly woman on board an international Air India flight from New York to Delhi has told a court in Delhi that the allegation against him was not right and counter-accused the woman of urinating on herself, NDTV reported.
Shankar Mishra, an executive by profession who was sacked after the incident of November 26 led to a massive outrage across the nation, made the shocking claim while responding to a notice issued by the sessions court on an application filed by the police in Delhi seeking his custody for interrogation.
Mishra was sent to 14-day of judicial remand by a court following his arrest and it refused the police’s request for custody.
His request for bail was also turned down four days later by a judge who called the charges against the former “utterly disgusting and repulsive”.
“The alleged act in itself is sufficient to outrage the modesty of any woman. The egregious conduct of the accused has shocked the civic consciousness and needs to be deprecated,” the judge said on Wednesday (11), criticising him for being at large until a non-bailable warrant was issued.
During the bail hearing, Mishra’s lawyers made no reference to his latest claim of not urinating on the woman, arguing what he did “was not driven by sexual desire nor aimed at outraging the complainant’s modesty”.
At the hearing, the woman who brought the complaint against Mishra, said she was being threatened by those close to the latter.
“I’m regularly receiving messages, threatening me. Accused’s father sent me a message and said ‘karma will hit you’ and then deleted the message. They’re sending me messages and deleting it. This needs to stop,” her lawyer said, the report added.
