Click to play videoNew Delhi: Twelve years after she was killed, chopped and roasted, Naina Sahani's quest for justice continues.
The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce its judgement in the Tandoor murder case on Monday.
Twenty-year-old Naina Sahani was busy on the phone at her Gole market residence on July 2, 1995. Her husband Sushil Kumat walked in and Naina put the phone down in a huff.
Sushil had always suspected that Naina was having an affair with ex-classmate Matlub Karim, and now it was his chance to catch her red handed.
Sharma redialed the number and Matlub picked up the phone on the other end. In a fit of rage Sharma fired at Naina from his licensed pistol.
The first shot hit her on the head, the second one pierced through her neck and the AC got the third one. Naina was dead on the spot.
Sharma, a youth congress leader then, dragged Naina's body to his car and drove to the Bagiya restaurant in central Delhi.
He met the restaurant’s manager and his accomplice Keshav Kumar. And together they tried shoving Naina's body inside the tandoor to destroy all evidence.
They did not succeed and then followed the horrifying act of chopping the body into pieces and roasting them in the tandoor. And what unleashed thereon was a spine-chilling saga of brutality.
The leaping flames attracted the attention of the Delhi police constables who were patrolling the area and it was there timely intervention that foiled Sharma's plans.
While Keshav was arrested Sharma fled to Jaipur, Mumbai, Chennai and finally Bangalore where he surrendered on the 10th of July.
Delhi police filled a 19-page charge sheet based on which the trial court sentence Sharma to death in November 2003.
The trial court for destroying evidence and harbouring an accused also convicted four other accused.
Sharma appealed against the judgement in the High Court on December 8, 2003. The defence lawyers argued the very premise of the prosecutions argument.
They said that Naina and Sharma were not married and Sharma was not staying at the Gole market house where he allegedly shot Naina.
The pistol that the police recovered from his car was actually planted evidence and also that he never went to the Bagiya resturant.
The prosecution however, contended that eyewitness accounts of a neighbour who had seen Sharma and his aide burning the body. And the testimony of beat constable Abdul Nazir Kunju's proved the guilt of Sharma beyond any doubt.
The High Court heard both sides and reserved its order on January 17.
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