Sugata Bhattacharjee, a US-based doctor of audiology who was seated subsequent to accused Shankar Mishra in enterprise class on the New York-New Delhi Air India flight, has alleged that the flight crew cleaned the aged girls passenger’s seat and stored blankets it smelling of urine, after the ladies requested for a brand new seat, information company ANI reported.

A Delhi court on Saturday despatched Mishra, who allegedly urinated on the lady co-passenger on an Air India flight, to judicial remand for 14 days whereas rejecting a plea by police for his custody.

Bhattacharjee, who had earlier claimed that the captain of the flight made the traumatised sufferer watch for shut to 2 hours earlier than allocating her a recent seat, alleged that the crew might have given Mishra’s seat to her however they did not do something to pacify distressed passenger.

“The lady (victim) was quite decent. Two junior air hostesses cleaned her up. I went to the senior stewardess and asked them to give her another seat, she said that she can’t do that as they had to take permission from the captain,” ANI quoted Bhattacharjee as saying.

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“The only option for her was to move to 1st class as business class was full, what they (flight crew) did was clean her seat and kept blankets on the seat smelling of urine. They could have given Shankar Mishra’s seat but they didn’t do anything to pacify the distressed passenger,” the co-passenger mentioned.

Further recalling the incident, Bhattacharjee, mentioned Mishra had 4 drinks after which was asking him the “same questions multiple times”. “I finished lunch and told the flight attendant to keep an eye on him,” he added.

In a handwritten grievance to the airline, the physician of audiology had earlier mentioned the woman passenger was made to return to her dirty seat regardless of 4 seats within the top quality being vacant, reported information company PTI.

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Bhattacharjee’s revelation comes after the 70-year-old sufferer made the same allegation in opposition to the Air India crew. In her grievance to the airline, she wrote: “I asked the staff for a change of seat but was told that no other seats were available. However, another business class passenger who had witnessed my plight and was advocating for me pointed out that there were seats available in first class.”

After standing for 20 minutes, the sufferer was supplied a small seat utilized by airline employees the place she sat for about two hours. She was then requested to return to her personal seat. When she refused, the sufferer was supplied the steward’s seat for the remainder of the journey, the Delhi Police FIR said.

Bhattacharjee mentioned he was seated on 8A (window) within the first row of enterprise class, subsequent to the accused Mishra who was in seat 8C.

Shortly after lunch was served and the lights have been switched off onboard AI 102 of November 26 (JFK New York to IGIA, New Delhi), the inebriated male passenger seated in a enterprise class seat walked to the aged girl’s seat (9A), unzipped his pants and urinated on her.

The toilet was 4 rows behind his seat.

According to Bhattacharjee, he was woken up midflight when Mishra fell on him. “I initially thought he lost his balance due to a rough flight. However, as I was going to the restroom, I saw my two fellow passengers of 9A and 9C in distress,” he mentioned, including the lady of 9A got here to the gallery space, she was all moist.

“We were shocked to realise that my co-passenger (8C) was so intoxicated that he went to the next row and urinated on her,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, the metropolitan Justice of the Peace mentioned the bail software will likely be thought-about on January 11.

Bengaluru police had assisted Delhi police in arresting Mishra from Sanjay Nagar space within the metropolis. The Delhi Police registered an FIR in opposition to him on January 4 on a grievance given by the lady to Air India.