On January 27, a single-judge Delhi High Court bench chaired by Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla postponed the hearing on bail request Shankar Mishra made after he was recently detained for urinating on a fellow passenger on an Air India flight while intoxicated in November of last year. 

After complainant's attorney Ankur Mahindro complained that he hadn't received a copy of the bail plea, the judge postponed the case until Monday, January 30. 

The investigating officer was not present for the hearing, the court added.

"If the court is inclined to adjourn it then please grant me interim bail...This is not fair. It can't be a reason that the investigating officer is not here, so adjourn," Gupta said.

Mishra is now in detention after being denied bail by Magistrate Komal Garg on January 11. 

The Delhi police detained Mishra in Bengaluru on January 6 for allegedly peeing on a 70-year-old woman while intoxicated in November while travelling on an Air India flight. 

After the woman's letter to the chairman of the Tata Group was made public in the media, the incident came to light.

In a recent statement, Mishra's attorneys claimed that although he had given the woman the agreed-upon compensation amount on November 28, the woman's daughter had given it back to him on December 19. 

The court had then ruled that Mishra would not need to be placed in police custody and that the sheer existence of public pressure should not affect the course of the probe.