New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS): The Delhi High Court Wednesday acquitted former police officer R.K. Sharma, the main accused in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar who had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Manmohan Singh acquitted Sharma along with Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash. The three were sentenced to life by a trial court.
The life sentence of another accused, Pradeep Sharma, was upheld by the bench, saying the trial court had rightly convicted him for murder.
"R.K. Sharma, Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash have been acquitted on benefit of doubt," the bench said.
Shivani, a journalist with the Indian Express, was murdered at her Navkunj Apartments flat at I.P. Extension in east Delhi Jan 23, 1999.