One more witness has turned hostile in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case and expressed inability to identify two of the accused.
Detracting from a statement that police claim he had made before them, the witness, Moti Ram Yadav, a property dealer, told Additional Sessions Judge Sunil Gaur he did not know the accused Sri Bhagwan or Satya Prakash.
According to the police, Yadav told them he had visited Mohit Associates, allegedly jointly owned by accused Sri Bhagwan, Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma and Ved alias Kalu, at Gurgaon, Haryana, in order to purchase some plots.
Thereafter the accused showed him some properties, Yadav stated.
He even said he knew senior IPS officer R K Sharma, as the latter had served as senior superintendent of police, Gurgaon.
The witness, the police claimed, also said that on January 13, 1999, he had seen some of the accused board a Maruti Esteem car.
They told him they were going to meet R K Sharma at Ashoka Hotel in New Delhi, the police claimed.
Six accused, including R K Sharma, are facing trial for the murder of The Indian Express scribe Shivani Bhatnagar, whose body was found in her flat in East Delhi on January 23, 1999.
