An expert witness today told a city court, trying the journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, that a polygraph test of the main accused suspended IPS officer R K Sharma was never conducted, saya a Zee News report.
Deposing before the Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar, Vibha Rani Ray stated that she had conducted the polygraph tests of Shivani’s husband, Rakesh Bhatnagar, her sister Shivanti, brother-in-law B S Bhatnagar, brother Abhijit Kumar and Manoj Gulati.
Ray, however, told the court that Sharma was not produced before her for a second time even though she had given September 20 and 21, 1999 as the next dates and hence the test could not be conducted.
The statement comes close on the heels of another expert witness R S Bhardwaj, Director of Finger Prints Bureau of Delhi Police stating before the court on May 22 that he merely signed the report prepared by a Sub-Inspector and he did not himself independently examine the prints.
Along with suspended Haryana Cadre IG, five other accused — Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma, Pradeep Kumar, Ved alias Kalu and Sri Bhagwan — are facing trial in murder of the Indian Express Journalist who was killed at her east Delhi apartment on January 23, 1999.
