NEW DELHI: Shankar Mishra, the person accused of urinating on an aged lady co-passenger on an Air India flight, informed a Delhi courtroom on Friday he didn’t commit the offensive act and it appears she herself urinated as she was affected by some illness.

The declare by his lawyer, made for the primary time for the reason that sordid occasion unfolded on an Air India New York-New Delhi flight on November 26 final yr, flies within the face of denunciations of the accused by a number of the co-passengers and even a string of textual content message exchanges he had with the sufferer lady, which recommended the unsavoury incident certainly occurred.

The counsel for the accused made the submission earlier than further classes choose Harjyot Singh Bhalla whereas arguing towards a Delhi police petition in search of revision of an order handed by a Justice of the Peace courtroom denying police his custodial interrogation.

The choose disposed of the appliance, saying the submissions made earlier than him didn’t appear to have been made in entrance of the metropolitan Justice of the Peace. He mentioned police can method the magisterial courtroom with its utility afresh.

“I am not the accused. There should be another person. It appears she herself urinated. She was affected by some illness associated to the prostate, which a number of “kathak dancers” appear to endure from. It was not him. The seating system was such that nobody might go to her seat

“Her seat might solely be approached from behind, and in any case, the urine couldn’t attain the seat’s entrance space. Additionally, the passenger

sitting behind the complainant didn’t make any such criticism,” the defence advocate informed the choose.

Senior advocate Ramesh Gupta, showing for Mishra, accused the police and the press of turning the case right into a joke.

“The primary criticism was made by the complainant a day after the incident. What was the declare? To refund. That was accomplished by the airline. The police and the press have turned this case right into a joke… Was this case so large, was it a homicide case that they reached Bangalore to arrest me and referred to as me an absconder. He was faraway from his job,” the defence counsel mentioned.

Arguing for contemporary custody of the accused, the prosecutor informed the courtroom that Mr Mishra’s interrogation was required to determine the sequence of occasions.

The choose, nevertheless, mentioned no matter submission he was making was not handled by the metropolitan Justice of the Peace. Even in any other case, if further info are raised, the appliance may be moved earlier than the Justice of the Peace, the courtroom mentioned.

“With these, the appliance is disposed of. The division can method metropolitan Justice of the Peace afresh with these grounds if it needs so,” the choose mentioned.

Earlier in the course of the arguments, the choose requested the police if the complainant had given any assertion that there was a previous altercation or enmity with the accused. The prosecution replied within the unfavourable.

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