A Delhi Court will pronounce the quantum f sentence to former Haryana cadre IPS officer R K Sharma and hree others, who were convicted in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder ase.
New Delhi, Mar.24 : A Delhi Court will pronounce the quantum f sentence to former Haryana cadre IPS officer R K Sharma and hree others, who were convicted in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder ase.
Last week, the court had held R K Sharma alongwith three others - Pradeep Sharma, Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash -- for murdering he Indian Express journalist at her East-Delhi flat on January 3 1999.
Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri had pronounced hem guilty under Section 302 (murder) and 120B (criminal onspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
These penal provisions call for either life imprisonment or death enalty.
The court had acquitted Ved Prakash Sharma and Ved alias Kalu.
The court which heard the arguments on quantum of sentence for he convicts on March 20 had reserved its order for today.
Even as special public prosecutor S K Saxena demanded death enalty for R K Sharma and Pradeep - guilty of killing the scribe it sought life imprisonment for Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash, ho it said were intermediaries to the commission of the crime.
Countering the prosecution's demand for capital punishment for he suspended policeman, R K Sharma's counsel S P Minocha ontended before the court that the murder did not fall in the rarest of rare' category.
The counsel said that the reason of the victim being a media ersonality and the guilty a senior IPS officer did not justify eath penalty for the convict.
It took the police over three years to crack the case. The trial as seen four judges and 209 witnesses.
ANI