New Delhi: March 24, 2008 - Senior IPS officer R.K. Sharma gets the life term in the murder of Indian Express reporter, Shivani Bhatnagar. Sharma is the IPS officer in the country to be convicted of murder. Nine years after the murder of the journalist, a a Delhi court found former Haryana Police official, R.K. Sharma and three others guilty of murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. However, the court has rejected the prosecution's demand of death sentence by saying that he does not have a criminal past and the court said that it was not the rarest of the rare case. A fine of Rs 20,000 was also slapped on R.K. Sharma, while the other three have been fined Rs 10,000 each.
Monday, March 24, 2008
R.K. Sharma, 3 others gets life term in Shivani Bhatnagar murder case
New Delhi: March 24, 2008 - Senior IPS officer R.K. Sharma gets the life term in the murder of Indian Express reporter, Shivani Bhatnagar. Sharma is the IPS officer in the country to be convicted of murder. Nine years after the murder of the journalist, a a Delhi court found former Haryana Police official, R.K. Sharma and three others guilty of murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. However, the court has rejected the prosecution's demand of death sentence by saying that he does not have a criminal past and the court said that it was not the rarest of the rare case. A fine of Rs 20,000 was also slapped on R.K. Sharma, while the other three have been fined Rs 10,000 each.
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