- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
A day after the man, accused of urinating on an elderly woman co-passenger on board an Air India flight from New York to Delhi in November last year, claimed before a court that he had not done it and rather it was the complainant who did it on herself, the latter hit back, calling the words of the accused “completely false and concocted”.
“The said allegations are also in complete contradiction and a complete volte-face of the statements and the pleaded case of the accused in his bail application,” the woman was quoted as saying by a report in NDTV.
The accused, Shankar Mishra, made the shocking claim while responding to a notice by the sessions court on an application by the Delhi Police, which arrested him from Bengaluru a week ago, requesting his custody for interrogating him.
Mishra was sent to 14-day judicial remand by a court that refused the cops’ request for custody.
The woman said her intention has always been to ensure that institutional changes are made “so that no individual has to go through the horrendous experience that the victim suffered”.
She said instead of being remorseful for the “utterly disgusting act committed by him”, the accused “adopted a campaign of spreading misinformation and falsities with the intent of further harassing” her.
Mishra had been on the run from authorities for days after the urinating row came to the fore, and had been sacked by his employer — US banking giant Wells Fargo.
He was allegedly drunk during the journey from New York to New Delhi on November 26. He reportedly unzipped his trousers and urinated on the 70-above woman seated in the business class.
