New Delhi, Aug 05: Terming the charges against former youth congress leader and prime accused in the Tandoor murder case Sushil Sharma as "fabricated", the defence today told a city court that his name was entered later in the fir and that nobody had heard any gun shots in the flat where his wife Naina Sahni was allegedly killed. Picking holes in the prosecution case, defence counsel P K Dham told additional sessions judge G P Yhareja that initially neither was Sharma's name entered in the FIR nor was there any mention of his car. Some additional pages were attached to the fir later in which Sharma's name and the presence of his car at Baghiya restaurant - where allegedly Sahni's body parts were found burnt - were recorded, Dham said. Though Chaudhary couple - Sharma's "neighbours" at Mandir Marg - claimed that they had heard Sharma shouting at Sahni on several occasions, the fact that they had not heard gun shots on the fateful day creates doubts about the charges levelled against Sharma by the prosecution, Dham said. Prosecution had alleged that Sharma had shot dead Sahni on July 2, 1995 at his Mandir Marg residence, then cut her body into pieces and burnt it in a Tandoor at Baghiya open-air restaurant here. Police had recovered parts of the burnt body of Sahni from the Tandoor at Baghiya in Ashok Yatri Nivas here on the intervening night of July 2/3, 1995.
Bureau Report