New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict in the sensational Naina Sahani murder case — in which former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma was given death penalty by a lower court for killing his wife — on Monday.
A Delhi court had on November 7, 2003 sentenced Sharma to death for murdering his wife Naina at their house in Gole Market. Sharma had later burnt her body in an earthen oven (tandoor) at Baggia restaurant in Ashok Yatri Niwas Hotel on the intervening night of July 2-3, 1995.
Soon after the trial court's judgement, Sharma had filed an appeal challenging the same. His counsel K K Sud alleged his client had not got a fair trial as the trial judge did not give a chance to his client to defend himself properly.
Sud also charged the trial judge of relying on "false" evidence produced by police and urged the bench to reverse the trial court's judgement. A bench of Justices R S Sodhi and P K Bhasin said that the verdict would be pronounced at 1400 hrs.
The prosecution had fabricated all evidence, including the revolver, and planted that as a piece of evidence to falsely implicate his client, he alleged. The suspected weapon was picked up by the police from his house in Delhi and shown that it was recovered from his Maruti car, he argued.
The counsel denied Sharma was staying with Naina at the house in Gole Market, where the murder took place, as he was not legally married to her.
However, Mukta Gupta — the counsel appearing for the Delhi Police — contended that the evidence produced by police was sufficient to prove that the offence was committed by Sharma.
A Delhi court had on November 7, 2003 convicted Sharma and Baghiya restaurant manager Keshav for the murder and acquitted three others — Ram Prakash Sachdeva, Prakash Pehlwan and Rishi Raj Rathi. While Sharma was sentenced to death, Keshav was given rigorous imprisonment for seven years.
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