New Delhi, Apr 28: Former Delhi Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, facing charges of murdering his wife Naina Sahani and burning her in a `Tandoor`, today told a city court that he had not visited or stayed in the flat where the alleged killing took place. Recording his statement before Additional Sessions Judge G P Thareja, Sharma said he had never been to the flat at Mandir Marg in the heart of the capital where Sahani was allegedly murdered. He also denied that police had taken him to the flat after his arrest. The statement under Section 313 CRPC gives the accused a last chance to defend himself against the charges.
To queries by the court as to what he had to say about the seizures made and photographs taken of materials from that flat - like mattress and other blood-stained objects - Sharma alleged they were planted by police.
He claimed that the CFSL was shying away from submitting a report of the fingerprints taken from the scene as "it did not include my fingerprints."
When shown cash memos allegedly recovered from the flat, he expressed wonder as to how they had reached there when they ought to have been with the cashier at ITDC, and claimed this too could be the handiwork of investigating officers.
Papers pertaining to seizures do not have the signature of any public witness, he alleged, adding police should have obtained the same.

Police had recovered parts of the burnt body of Naina Sahani from the Tandoor at Baghiya in Ashok Yatri Nivas at New Delhi on the intervening night of July 23, 1995. Bureau Report