Air India pee gate: Court reserves order on Shankar Mishra bail plea

The Patiala House Court on Monday reserved the order on the bail petition moved by Shankar Mishra an accused of allegedly urinating on a woman on board an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi on November 26 last yearThe Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla on Monday decided to reserve the order on his bail and said the order will be passed on TuesdayDuring the arguments the court noted that the witness the investigation agency has named is not deposing in its favourThere is a contradiction in the complainants statement and Ila Benarjees Witness statement the court further notedHowever the advocate appearing for the accused Shankar Mishra told the court that the complainant after the incident asked for reimbursement of the ticket and sought no action against the accusedI am denied bail by Magistrate Court stating that my conduct was not satisfactory and the investigation was pending But now police have examined other crew members and witnesses The complainant asked for reimbursement of the ticket and sought no action against me Senior Advocate Ramesh Gupta submittedPublic Prosecutor who appeared for Delhi Police opposed the bail plea of Shankar MishraThe Delhi police accused Mishra of not cooperating in the investigation and opposed his bail pleaHe urinated on a senior citizen He didnt cooperate in the investigation He had switched off all his mobile phones Then we traced him through IMEI number He defamed India internationally Public Prosecutor who appeared for Delhi Police submittedRecently Mishras bail plea was dismissed by the Magistrate court He was arrested by the Delhi Police on January 6 and is presently in judicial custodyOn January 11 the Magistrate Court of Delhis Patiala House Court dismissed the bail plea of accused Shankar Mishra and said the alleged act of the accused of relieving himself upon the complainant is utterly disgusting and repulsiveThe alleged act in itself is sufficient to outrage the modesty of any woman Egregious conduct of the accused has shocked the civic consciousness and needs to be deprecated said Metropolitan Magistrate Komal GargAlso Read Air India peegate Shankar Mishra moves bail in Sessions CourtAs per the allegations the accused was voluntarily drunk and had consumed alcohol during the flight and the said fact has not been denied by the applicant The alleged act in itself prima facie reflects the intention of the accused added the MagistrateRecently senior advocate Ramesh Gupta appearing for Shankar Mishra alleged that the complainant womans seat was blocked It was not possible for him Mishra to go there The woman has a problem with incontinence She urinated on herselfRaising questions over the Delhi Police investigation advocate Gupta submitted that there must be someone else She herself urinated The seating system was such that no one could go to her seat The passenger sitting behind the complainant did not make any such complaint he addedOn this allegation the complainant issued a statement stating that the accused has adopted a campaign of spreading misinformation and falsities with the intent of further harassing the victimAccused instead of being remorseful for the utterly disgusting act committed by him has adopted a campaign of spreading misinformation and falsities with the intent of further harassing the victim said the complainant through her lawyer Ankur MahendruMishra had allegedly urinated on a 70yearold woman in an intoxicated condition in business class of an Air India flight on November 26 last yearDelhi Police had registered an FIR against him on January 4 on a complaint given by the woman to Air IndiaThe police registered an FIR under sections 354 509 and 510 of the Indian Penal Code IPC and Section 23 of the Indian Aircraft Act Both the accused and the victim are from outside DelhiThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever