New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of suspended Haryana IPS officer R K Sharma, who is a key accused in the Shivani Bahtnagar murder case. Sharma has been in jail following his surrender in 2002 in connection with the case.
In his bail plea, Sharma had submitted that he had no criminal background and had been suffering from serious ailments, including spinal chord problem for which he even underwent a surgery.
The defence lawyers also argued that there was no chance of Sharma influencing the witnesses as the trial court had already completed the recording of evidence with the examination of 209 witnesses.
Justice Ravinder Bhatt, who had on February 15 reserved the order after hearing the arguments on the bail petition, rejected his application.
Sharma, in his statement before the trial court under Section 313 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which entitles an accused to get his version recorded, had accepted that Shivani was a family friend. The trial court would continue to record Sharma's statement in the case on February 20, the next date of hearing.
Sharma alongwith five co-accused — Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma, Ved alias Kalu and Sri Bhagwan — are facing trail in the case. Bhatnagar was found murdered at her East Delhi apartment on January 23, 1999.
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