'80% Kathak Dancers Have This Problem': Air India Pee Gate Accused Says Woman Urinated On Herself

The Sessions Court in Delhi on Friday resumed hearing on Delhi Police's revision plea challenging magisterial court’s order of January 7 denying the custody of Shankar Mishra.

Shankar Mishra being taken away by the police from the DCP office at IGI Airport in New Delhi.

Source : PTI

New Delhi: Shankar Mishra, the accused in Air India peeing incident, denied the charges and told a Delhi Court that the complainant woman had urinated on herself as she had a problem on incontinence, news agency ANI reported.

“The complainant woman's seat was blocked. It wasn’t possible for him (Mishra) to go there. The woman has a problem of incontinence. She urinated on herself. She is a Kathak dancer and 80 per cent of Kathak dancers have this issue,” ANI quoted Mishra’s counsel as saying.

Shankar Mishra’s counsel says - the complainant woman's seat was blocked. It wasn’t possible for him (Mishra) to go there. The woman has a problem of incontinence. She urinated on herself. She is a Kathak dancer, 80% of kathak dancers have this issue.

— ANI (@ANI) January 13, 2023

The Sessions Court in Delhi on Friday resumed hearing on Delhi Police's revision plea challenging magisterial court’s order of January 7 denying the custody of Shankar Mishra.

However, contradicting the counsel’s arguments, the Sessions Court judge said that it is not impossible to go from one side of the flight to the other and sought the diagram of the Delhi-bound Air India flight.

“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,” the judge said.

It is to be noted that Shankar Mishra in an inebriated condition had allegedly urinated on a 70-year-old female co-passenger on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26.

The senior citizen, who was too shocked to react, had written to Tata Group chief N Chandrasekaran on the peeing incident.

Based on the complaint, US financial services company Wells Fargo sacked Mishra earlier this month.

Last week a team of Delhi Police personnel reached Bengaluru and arrested Mishra.

Meanwhile, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday issued show cause notices to Air India officials, including the pilot and cabin crew members who operated on the November 26 New York-Delhi flight.