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giving to give back to Sharma and was going to threaten to expose him for it, so he executed her murder. Ravi Kant Sharma denied these allegations and was accused of having intimate relations with
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pleaded that the phone calls were tampered with by the police and cannot be relied on and this was further looked into by the court. The court states that since the records are not a directly available data from the telephone company they appear as documents that could have been tampered with they did not charge Ravi Kant Sharma.
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after being in jail for nine years (since 2002 when he surrendered himself in to the police) and the other convicts were deemed not guilty as well due to lack of evidence. However, Pradeep Sharma was jailed for almost four years from 2009-2013. Pradeep was arrested due to the evidence found of his
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There were many instances where the evidence was deemed as ineffective or was questioned on reliability. The phone calls between Ravi Kant Sharma and
Pradeep Sharma were nicknamed PW135/28 and they won Shri Bhagwan acquittal as they held a lot of suspicion about its authenticity. Ravi Kant Sharma
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Ravi Kant Sharma was charged by prosecutors for murdering
Shivani Bhatnagar for reasons that she had legal documents that he had leaked to her and she was not willing to return those to him. It was said that she had some politically sensitive documents, relating to St Kitts case, that she was not
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convicts, Sri
Bhagawan, Ved Prakash Sharma, and Satya Prakash were also requested to be given a life sentence. Enough evidence was found between linked phone call records between Ravi Kant Sharma and Pradeep Sharma to prove that they were the cause for her death and had been conspiring a plan.
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officer Ravi Kant Sharma along with Sri
Bhagwan Sharma, Satya Prakash and Pradeep Sharma were accused in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case and they were convicted by a Delhi Trial Court on 18 March 2008. Two other accused—Dev Prakash Sharma and Ved Prakash alias Kalu—were acquitted for want of
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The trial was held for the suspended IPS officer, Ravi Kant Sharma and
Pradeep Sharma, who was allegedly hired by Ravi Kant Sharma to kill Shivani Bhatnagar. The trial consisted of the prosecutors debating whether the plaintiffs deserved the death penalty or life sentence. The remaining three
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Police, who investigated the case. Sharma surrendered to the police on 27 September 2002, after remaining in hiding for weeks after the arrest warrant was issued on 3 August. Sharma allegedly killed
Bhatnagar because he feared she would expose their "intimate" relations.
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handwriting found at the register of
Shivani's apartment block which allowed him to get access to go within the apartment complex. Along with this, his fingerprints were found at the crime scene, in Shivani's apartment.
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