The Hindu : Sharma unlikely to seek bail before chargesheet

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Friday, Oct 11, 2002

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Sharma unlikely to seek bail before chargesheet

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI OCT. 10. R.K. Sharma, prime accused in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, is in no hurry to move the trial court for bail. The suspended I.G. (Prison) of Haryana along with five co-accused was remanded to judicial custody on October 8.

Sharma has been advised by his counsel not to make any move in the case before the Delhi police chargesheet him and the five co-accused.

Counsel for Sharma, R.K. Naseem, told The Hindu that he would advise him to move a bail application after the city police filed a chargesheet.

So in all likelihood, the flamboyant police officer would celebrate his Dussehra and Diwali along with Harish Kumar, another IPS officer of Haryana cadre lodged in the same barrack of Tihar jail where Sharma has been kept.

Mr Naseem said that his client would wait for the chargesheet and file the bail application only after analysing the accusations and material evidence to prove them. Sharma would not like to waste the opportunity to get bail from the trial court itself by moving the application before filing of the chargesheet as the court in all probability would not consider his plea before the stipulated time of 90 days for filing a chargesheet in a criminal case ends on October 30.

Meanwhile, the Crime Branch has got down to writing the chargesheet under the personal supervision of the Police Commissioner, R.S. Gupta. It has been learnt that the city police are likely to file the chargesheet on 24 or 25 of this month. It is most likely that the police will first meet the deadline to prevent the accused from getting bail on technical ground and then might decide to file a supplementary chargesheet to make their case fool-proof.

It can not be said for sure at this moment about the motive — illicit relationship or pilfering of sensitive documents from the Prime Minister's House (PMO) — the city police would finally decide on to underpin the conspiracy to kill Shivani Bhatnagar.

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