NEW DELHI: Shankar Mishra, accused of relieving himself on an elderly woman on an Air India flight, claimed in a Delhi court on Friday that she had "urinated on herself" because she suffered from incontinence.
"She is a Kathak dancer and 80% of Kathak dancers have this issue," senior advocate Ramesh Gupta, appearing for Mishra, told the court of additional sessions judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla.
The twist in Mishra's defence came two days after his lawyer, Manu Sharma, while seeking bail from the court of metropolitan magistrate Komal Garg, said that his client had in fact unzipped his fly but the intent was not sexual.
"It is revolting but when someone unzips himself in a public place, there will be intent for that.
Here, the case is that I am inebriated and the question is, was the unzipping to satisfy a sexual desire? That is not the case.
I am not running away from the fact that it was obscene," his lawyer had submitted.Lady had urinated on herself on the Air India flight: Shankar Mishra's counsel argues in the court On Friday, Mishra also claimed that the woman's seat was blocked and it was not possible for him to approach her and urinate on her.
"She was suffering from some prostate gland-related disease.
It was not him.
The seating system was such that no one could go to her seat," his lawyer submitted.The judge replied that it was not impossible to go from one side of the plane to the other and sought a blueprint of the seating on that flight.
The court was hearing a police application opposing refusal of police custody of Mishra on January 7.