R.K. Sharma, the former Haryana IPS officer convicted in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, has pleaded before the Delhi high court that there were several missing links in the chain of circumstances in the murder case, as claimed by the prosecution.
Sharma’s counsel pleaded before a division bench stating that Sharma was not involved in the alleged criminal conspiracy to kill the Indian Express journalist Shivani. Sharma’s counsel claimed that the Delhi police had fabricated mobile phone records between Sharma and Sri Bhagwan. Shivani was allegedly murdered inside her Navkunj Apartments flat at I.P. Extension in east Delhi on January 23, 1999.