The Delhi Police filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the Delhi High Court’s decision that acquitted the three accused in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar due to lack of evidence.
The HC had acquitted former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer RK Sharma and two others giving them the benefit of doubt on 12 October, 2011.
The High Court had upheld the trial court verdict convicting the fourth accused, Pradeep Sharma, but acquitted the other three, including RK Sharma, after the former IPS officer appealed against the lower court’s verdict. The other two people acquitted were Satya Prakash and Sri Bhagwan Sharma. “These are questions which we cannot answer on the basis of the material before us. The quality of evidence before us is not of a high calibre,” the HC had said adding that the call records, the key document, is riddled with so many problems that it could not be relied upon.
The HC also said that the prosecution failed to establish the link between RK Sharma and the killer, and even crucial records relating to the call details were tampered with and could not be relied upon.
Sharma was officer-in-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) when the case against him was filed; he put in his papers in 2002.
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