Edited By: Nayanika Sengupta
Last Updated: January 07, 2023, 14:42 IST
Shankar Mishra (in pic) is accused of urinated on a senior citizen lady on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi.
Accused Shankar Mishra’s lawyer spoke to News18 and stated that whereas the matter is now in court docket and every thing might be determined by trial led by proof, there at all times is at all times is a special facet of a narrative, including that ‘now we have been pushing too exhausting for one facet of this whole story’
The Bengaluru police on Saturday confirmed the arrest of Shankar Mishra, who’s accused of urinated on a senior citizen lady on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi. Shankar Mishra was arrested from a visitor home in Bengaluru and was dropped at Delhi later the place he might be produced in a court docket over the matter.
The accused, who held a prime publish within the US monetary companies firm Wells Fargo till he was fired on Friday, had been holed up in Bengaluru ever since a lookout round was issued after the matter escalated over a month after the incident befell.
Accused Shankar Mishra’s lawyer spoke to News18 and stated that whereas the matter is now in court docket and every thing might be determined by trial led by proof, there at all times is at all times is a special facet of a narrative, including that “now we have been pushing too exhausting for one facet of this whole story”.
Raising some questions which she termed important, Shankar Mishra’s lawyer Ishanee Sharma asked as to how is there no complaint or eyewitness account from those who were sitting on the middle and the aisle seats when the accused, as per claims, was urinating on the passenger who was sitting on 9A, which is a window seat.
“There are a few very very important questions. 1. We know that the seat number of the lady was 9A. 9A is a window seat. So arguably there would be someone sitting in the between? There would be someone seated on the aisle seat? We have heard no complaints, no eyewitness account, no one coming out and saying that I was on the aisle seat I got affected in the process or I witnessed this with my own eyes, ” Mishra’s lawyer Ishanee Sharma informed News18.
She added that Mishra, when he was in a “higher state”, was told what all he did and was not in a state to recall what he did, he apologised, which was also accepted.
“Saying my client was inebriated, was intoxicated…the client was not in his best frame of mind but you cannot presume it to be just under the influence of alcohol. Because when he was in a better state, he was told, he was accused of a certain things that you did this, you did this, you did this, and he was not in a state to actually recall what he did, he apologised, and his apology was accepted,” the lawyer stated.
“You can learn the WhatsApp messages, he has been very very apologetic and respectful to the feminine in query and that apology was properly taken,” she added. The lawyer called the criminal complaint by the woman in question and return of the compensation money an “afterthought”, including that the lady had stated replied with “obtained” when the money was sent to her.
“I’d call it a malicious afterthought,” the lawyer stated.
Shankar Mishra is accused of urinating on the lady, a senior citizen, in an inebriated situation within the enterprise class of the Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26 final yr.
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