By Online Desk
In a U-turn, Shankar Mishra, the person accused of urinating on an aged girl co-passenger on an Air India flight together with exposing himself in entrance of her, instructed a Delhi court docket on Friday he didn’t commit the offensive act. The occasion unfolded on an Air India New York-New Delhi flight on November 26 final yr.
This declare by his lawyer comes after the denunciation of the accused by a few of the co-passengers and even a string of WhatsApp exchanges Mishra had with the sufferer which urged the incident certainly came about.
The accused claimed that the lady urinated on herself. His defence advocate Ramesh Gupta alleged that she was “suffering from some disease related to prostate which several ‘kathak dancers’ seem to suffer from.”
He went on to assert that “the flight’s seating system was such that no one could go to her seat.”
He added: “Her seat could only be approached from behind”, and stated that, in any case, “the urine could not reach to the seat’s front area.”
On this, Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla noticed that, “It is not impossible to go from one side of the flight to the other. Sorry, but I have travelled as well. Anybody from any row can come around and go to any seat.”
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The counsel additionally instructed the choose that the passenger sitting behind the complainant “did not make any such complaint.”
The counsel made the submission earlier than Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla whereas arguing in opposition to a Delhi police petition. It sought revision of a January 7 order handed by a magisterial court docket denying police his custodial interrogation whereas sending Mishra to 14-day judicial remand.
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 Magistrate. He stated police can method the magisterial court docket with its utility afresh.
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Metropolitan Magistrate Komal Garg had on Wednesday denied bail to Mishra whereas calling his act “utterly disgusting and repulsive”.
The court docket stated the act has shocked the civic consciousness of individuals and wanted to be deprecated.
Earlier in the course of the arguments, the choose requested police if the complainant had given any assertion that there was a previous altercation or enmity with the accused. The prosecution replied within the adverse.
“Then the case relates only from him leaving (his seat) to returning. You can question him in jail as well,” the choose stated.
Mishra was reportedly arrested at midnight, between 12.30 am and 1 am, from a service house in Sanjay Nagar in Bengaluru North on January 7.
US banking large Wells Fargo on Friday sacked a high Indian government now being pursued by police for allegedly urinating on a fellow passenger aboard an Air India flight.
Shankar Mishra, who’s the vp of US banking large Wells Fargo India’s operations, was terminated after the 72-year-old girl wrote to Air India’s administration to complain concerning the November incident.
The Delhi police registered an FIR in opposition to Mishra on January 4 on the grievance of the lady.
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(With PTI, ANI inputs)
In a U-turn, Shankar Mishra, the person accused of urinating on an aged girl co-passenger on an Air India flight together with exposing himself in entrance of her, instructed a Delhi court docket on Friday he didn’t commit the offensive act. The occasion unfolded on an Air India New York-New Delhi flight on November 26 final yr.
This declare by his lawyer comes after the denunciation of the accused by a few of the co-passengers and even a string of WhatsApp exchanges Mishra had with the sufferer which urged the incident certainly came about.
The accused claimed that the lady urinated on herself. His defence advocate Ramesh Gupta alleged that she was “suffering from some disease related to prostate which several ‘kathak dancers’ seem to suffer from.”
He went on to assert that “the flight’s seating system was such that no one could go to her seat.”
He added: “Her seat could only be approached from behind”, and stated that, in any case, “the urine could not reach to the seat’s front area.”
On this, Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla noticed that, “It is not impossible to go from one side of the flight to the other. Sorry, but I have travelled as well. Anybody from any row can come around and go to any seat.”
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The counsel additionally instructed the choose that the passenger sitting behind the complainant “did not make any such complaint.”
The counsel made the submission earlier than Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla whereas arguing in opposition to a Delhi police petition. It sought revision of a January 7 order handed by a magisterial court docket denying police his custodial interrogation whereas sending Mishra to 14-day judicial remand.
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 Magistrate. He stated police can method the magisterial court docket with its utility afresh.
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Metropolitan Magistrate Komal Garg had on Wednesday denied bail to Mishra whereas calling his act “utterly disgusting and repulsive”.
The court docket stated the act has shocked the civic consciousness of individuals and wanted to be deprecated.
Earlier in the course of the arguments, the choose requested police if the complainant had given any assertion that there was a previous altercation or enmity with the accused. The prosecution replied within the adverse.
“Then the case relates only from him leaving (his seat) to returning. You can question him in jail as well,” the choose stated.
Mishra was reportedly arrested at midnight, between 12.30 am and 1 am, from a service house in Sanjay Nagar in Bengaluru North on January 7.
US banking large Wells Fargo on Friday sacked a high Indian government now being pursued by police for allegedly urinating on a fellow passenger aboard an Air India flight.
Shankar Mishra, who’s the vp of US banking large Wells Fargo India’s operations, was terminated after the 72-year-old girl wrote to Air India’s administration to complain concerning the November incident.
The Delhi police registered an FIR in opposition to Mishra on January 4 on the grievance of the lady.
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(With PTI, ANI inputs)
