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Sharma's bail plea rejected

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MAY 1. A Delhi court today dismissed the interim bail application of R. K. Sharma, the suspended former Inspector-General (Prisons), of Haryana and main accused in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case.

Dismissing the bail application, the Additional Sessions Judge, Sunil Gaur, said the medical report of the accused did not suggest any urgency for surgery of his back as submitted by him in the application. "As per his medical reports, he has been advised surgery for his ailment if the symptoms worsen. He has been advised physiotherapy and been referred for the same. Thus, it is not a case of advice of surgery at the earliest date possible as pleaded by the applicant,'' Mr. Gaur said.

Mr. Gaur reserved his orders on Friday after hearing counsel for R. K. Sharma, S. P. Minocha, and the Special Public Prosecutor in the case, S. K. Saxena.

In his application, Mr. Sharma had said that he had been suffering from the ailment since 2002 and undergoing treatment in the jail as well as in hospitals wherever he had been referred to.

He submitted that doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences had advised him surgery as soon as possible.

Mr. Sharma, along with his five co-accused, are facing prosecution for allegedly hatching a conspiracy and killing the then Indian Express' principal correspondent, Shivani Bhatnagar, at her Navkunj Apartments in Patparganj in East Delhi in 1999.

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