New Delhi, Nov 20: A key witness in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, Suresh Kumar Kukreja today denied having given any statement to the police during investigation but soon after affirmed certain facts in the statement attributed to him. Upon cross examination by special public prosecutor S K Saxena, Kukreja, who is also a family friend of prime accused and senior IPS officer R K Sharma told additional sessions judge Sunil Gaur that he had never given any statement to police during the investigation of the case. However, when referred to a part of the statement wherein it was so recorded that he had "offered" to Sharma to come and stay at a residential flat attached to his office in Pune, when the IPS officer was there in connection with a training programme, Kukreja said this fact was true. He reiterated that he had not given the statement to police. Asked who else in his family apart from himself knew about this "offer", Kukreja said his father also knew about it.
His evidence could not be completed as Sharma complained of uneasiness following which the court sent him for medical examination.
Bureau Report