The Hindu : Sushil Sharma found guilty

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Sushil Sharma found guilty

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI NOV. 3. After an eight-year trial, Sushil Sharma, former president of the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress, was today held guilty in the sensational Naina Sahni murder case of 1995.

The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on Wednesday.

Pronouncing the verdict, the Additional Sessions Judge, G.P. Thareja, said: "The charge under Section 302 IPC against the accused, Sushil Sharma, for causing murder is proved beyond doubt. He is held guilty and convicted.''

Naina Sahni, young wife of Sushil Sharma, was murdered in her rented house at Gole Market here on July 2, 1995.

The police had alleged that after the murder, Sharma cut her body into pieces, stuffed them into a gunny bag and brought it to the now wound-up Bagiya Restaurant in Hotel Ashok Yatri Niwas off Janpath for disposal in a most gruesome manner in a tandoor (oven) there. However, an alert beat constable of the Delhi police, who was on duty in the area that night, foiled the bid. He raised an alarm after spotting a part of the body lying beside the oven and immediately informed the police headquarters. Senior police officers rushed to the restaurant and recovered the badly burnt body parts of Naina.

The court also convicted Sushil Sharma's co-accused, Keshav Kumar, the then manager of Bagiya Restaurant, for conspiring with Sharma to dispose of the body parts. However, the Judge acquitted Keshav of the murder charge.

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