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Delhi police to take Sharma to Mumbai, Pune

Onkar Singh in New Delhi

The Delhi police will take Ravi Kant Sharma, senior Indian Police Service officer and prime accused in the Indian Express journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, to Mumbai and Pune on Friday.

Sharma surrendered before the chief judicial magistrate in Ambala on September 27 and was subsequently brought to Delhi by the crime branch of the Delhi police and produced before the trial court, which remanded him to police custody till October 8.

According to the Delhi police sources Sharma would be taken to the two cities to identify some of the places where he had met the other accused after the murder of Shivani.

Sharma, according to the sources, had allegedly paid Rs 300,000 for the murder of the journalist.

Sharma has also claimed that he was in Pune on the day of murder, January 23,1999.

The Delhi police has also prepared 137 questions for the interrogation of Sharma. "These questions relate to his investments, how he planned his career, how he met Shivani and whether he took her abroad during his tenure as the officer on special duty in the Prime Minister's office," a senior Delhi police official told rediff.com.

R K Sharma, an ace interrogator himself, has been so far stonewalling all the questions, he said.

"My father has become weak and lost weight. He looks off colour. But so far we have not come across any evidence of physical torture," Sharma's daughter, Pragati, told rediff.com in Delhi.

Asked what sort of evidence the family had against [Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister] Pramod Mahajan, she said, "We would release it at an appropriate time."

"Of course we have sufficient evidence against him, otherwise I would not make such a statement. We are not accustomed to telling lies like the Delhi police," she alleged.

The court has allowed Sharma's family to meet him for ten minutes every day during police custody.

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