The Delhi High Court has granted interim bail for four weeks to former inspector general of Haryana Police R.K. Sharma, the key accused in the murder of Indian Express reporter Shivani Bhatnagar, according to an Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) report in the Times of India.
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Granting bail, judge S.K. Aggarwal Friday directed that Sharma should not move out of his residence at Panchkula in Haryana during this period.
Sharma sought and got interim bail to attend his daughter’s marriage to be solemnised on February 18. The bail is subject to Sharma furnishing a bond of Rs 200,000 with a surety of the like amount in the trial court.
The high court had in October 2005 allowed Sharma to undergo surgery on his spine at a private hospital at Mohali in Punjab in police custody.
Sharma and five others are facing trial for criminal conspiracy and murder for allegedly killing Bhatnagar at her Navkunj Apartments home at Patparganj in East Delhi in 1999.
