The witnesses named by the Delhi Police in a case against Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman on board an Air India flight from New York to Delhi, are not deposing in the prosecution's favour, a city court observed on Monday while it reserved its order on his bail application.
Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla heard the arguments from the counsel appearing for the prosecution and the accused, and said he will pronounce the order on Mishra's bail application tomorrow
“The witness you (Investigation agency) have named are not deposing in your favour... . There is a contradiction in the complainant's statement and Ila Benarjee's (witness) statement,” the judge noted during the proceedings.
Police opposed the bail application, saying “India has been defamed internationally because of the incident”, to which the judge said, "It may be disgusting but that is another matter, let's not get into that.”
