Air India urination case: Shankar Mishra gets bail as court takes note of ‘contradictions’

Taking note that a witness did not support the claim made by the victim, a Delhi court Tuesday granted bail to Shankar Mishra, who has been accused of urinating on a fellow co-passenger while inebriated onboard an Air India flight between New York and Delhi in November last year.

Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla granted bail to Mishra after going through the statement of the passenger seated next to the complainant to state that the witness has “not supported the claim made by the victim in her statement, which, of course, cannot also be completely brushed aside at his stage… The claim has, therefore, become more of a matter of trial”.