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Two more witnesses turn hostile in Shivani case
New Delhi, May 28: In a jolt to the prosecution in Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, two more witnesses turned hostile today and refused to support the police version.
New Delhi, May 28: In a jolt to the prosecution in Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, two more witnesses turned hostile today and refused to support the police version.
Deposing before additional sessions judge J M Malik,
Naveen Kumar, an MCD employee denied that he had accompanied
accused Sri Bhagwan when the latter purchased a Nokia mobile
phone and sim card from a shop in Lajpat Nagar.
Sri Bhagwan is the maternal uncle of Kumar's wife.
The witness denied that police had recorded his statement in connection with the case. He also expressed ignorance when asked if he knew that Bhagwan had a mobile phone.
Kumar, police claim, had told them that Bhagwan had a mobile phone which he had purchased from Nirmal Communications in Lajpat Nagar. Call records of the phone, they claim, showed that accused, including senior IPS officer R K Sharma, were in contact with each other.
The other witness who declined to toe police line was Bishweshar Dubey, working as guard at a Gurgaon farm house.
Identifying accused Sri Bhagwan and Sat Prakash in court, he said they used to frequent the farm house to meet co-accused Ved Sharma, who was a property dealer engaged by the farm house owner to sell the land.
However, he was declared hostile after he said Ved Sharma was in the farm house only since May 1999.
Dubey, police claimed, had said that Ved was there since 1998, even before the conspiracy was hatched in January 1999.
During cross examination, the witness who initially denied that he had met any policeman before coming to court later said, he was taken to police station where investigating officer told him that he was to depose today.
Bureau Report
Sri Bhagwan is the maternal uncle of Kumar's wife.
The witness denied that police had recorded his statement in connection with the case. He also expressed ignorance when asked if he knew that Bhagwan had a mobile phone.
Kumar, police claim, had told them that Bhagwan had a mobile phone which he had purchased from Nirmal Communications in Lajpat Nagar. Call records of the phone, they claim, showed that accused, including senior IPS officer R K Sharma, were in contact with each other.
The other witness who declined to toe police line was Bishweshar Dubey, working as guard at a Gurgaon farm house.
Identifying accused Sri Bhagwan and Sat Prakash in court, he said they used to frequent the farm house to meet co-accused Ved Sharma, who was a property dealer engaged by the farm house owner to sell the land.
However, he was declared hostile after he said Ved Sharma was in the farm house only since May 1999.
Dubey, police claimed, had said that Ved was there since 1998, even before the conspiracy was hatched in January 1999.
During cross examination, the witness who initially denied that he had met any policeman before coming to court later said, he was taken to police station where investigating officer told him that he was to depose today.
Bureau Report