Former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court verdict convicting and sentencing him to life imprisonment in a 2006 fake encounter case.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Gauri Godse quashed the sessions court's 2013 judgment acquitting Sharma, terming it as "perverse" and "unsustainable".
Anand Abhyankar, 50, and Akshay Pendse, 33, were on their way to Mumbai from Pune when the accident happened.
The Mumbai police filed a chargesheet against encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma and 20 others in an alleged fake encounter of Ramnarayan Gupta, a suspected aide of gangster Chhota Rajan, on Saturday.
The FIR, lodged with the suburban Versova police station, names 17 police officers as accused, including dismissed Police Inspector Pradeep Sharma and Senior Inspector of MIDC police station, Pradeep Suryavanshi.
All 21 convicts, including 13 policemen were on Thursday awarded life imprisonment by a court in Mumbai in the 2006 fake encounter killing of Ram Narayan Gupta alias Lakkhan Bhaiya, an alleged aide of fugitive gangster Chhota Rajan.
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