Delhi

New Delhi: Some mediapersons were roughed up by police at the venue of the day-long AICC session here, prompting Congress president Sonia Gandhi to tender an apology. The unsavoury incident occurred when scribes were stopped from entering the Talkatora Stadium by the police in the morning hours, leading to heated exchange of words between them. Police denied entry claiming that the stadium was...

The prosecution in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case has claimed before a Delhi court that the deceased journalist intended to expose prime accused RK Sharma of leaking classified documents to her in violation of the Official Secrets Act (OSA), according to the Indian Express. Arguing before Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, Special Public Prosecutor SK Saxena said Shivani, who, at...

The prosecution in journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case on Monday told a city court that the deceased was a “personal friend” of key accused and former IPS officer R K Sharma, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report in the Times of India. Special Public Prosecutor S K Saxena, in his arguments before Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, said Sharma had made a “false...

The nearly eight-year-old Shivani Bhatnagar murder trial entered a crucial phase last week with the prosecution starting its final arguments, says a report in the Times of India. This phase of the trial is the penultimate step before a verdict is delivered in the case that involves suspended IPS officer R K Sharma and five others as accused. Shivani, a print journalist, was strangled and murdered...

The Delhi High Court will hear the final arguments in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case today, says an Asia News International (ANI) report. Shivani, a journalist with the Indian Express, was found murdered on January 23, 1999. Suspended Haryana IPS officer R K Sharma, is a key accused in the case. Sharma, along with five co-accused - - Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma, Ved alias...

An officer of a private telecom company on Monday failed to produce call details of the husband of slain journalist Shivani Bhatnagar before a court trying the murder case involving suspended IPS officer RK Sharma, the Times of India has reported. Some details: Gulshan Kumar Arora, witness produced by Sharma to defend himself, said that the records are maintained upto a particular period of time...

A city court today granted interim bail for 10 days to an associate of suspended IPS officer R K Sharma, the prime accused in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar in 1999, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report in the Hindu. Additional Sessions Judge, Rajender Kumar Shastri, released Satya Prakash, also an accused in the scribe’s murder, on interim bail against a personal bond of Rs 20...

A city court on Tuesday, suspended the non-bailable warrant issued against the editor of a national daily following a submission that he was not in the country to appear before it in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, in which suspended IPS officer R K Sharma is the prime accused, the Times of India has reported. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, who had earlier in the day issued a...

The prosecution in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case today confronted main accused R K Sharma with evidence allegedly linking him as well as the other accused Sri Bhagwan to the murdered journalist, acording to a report in the Delhi Newsline supplement of the Indian Express. Some details of the report: In the court of Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar, the prosecution confronted Sharma with...

Suspended IPS officer and the main accused on journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, R K Sharma, on Tuesday claimed that the deceased scribe knew several top BJP leaders. He, however, downplayed his alleged intimate relationship with the Indian Express journalist, CNN-IBN has reported. Details: Hours after the Supreme Court rejected his plea, seeking certain ’statements’ recorded by the...