In fact the judge even seemed to compliment the former Inspector General of Police. The judge said that the murderer had ''rendered distinguished services to our country''. He also added, ''except for the crime in question, RK Sharma was an asset to this nation'', which is why he did not get the death penalty.
heard of rk sharma?? shivani bhatnagar?? read on...
Suspended IPS officer RK Sharma and three others have been awarded life sentence in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case by a city court on Monday.
Shivani Bhatnagar was murdered in her own apartment in east Delhi on January 23, 1999. She had been stabbed 39 times and her three-month-old baby had turned blue in the cold before he was found.
n even after all this, this was considered just another murder; not the rarest of rare that might shake the conscience of the nation and hence no death penalties.........its not that i'm fond of death penalties but just that anything less than the highest punishment in any justice system seems like a let-off in this case! had life imprisonment been the highest punishment in the Indian judicial system, it wud not hv seemed fair. we are expected to take solace in the fact that he is probably the first IPS officer to be convicted of murder.
one of the country's highest ranking police officers - sharma was Officer on Special Duty in the Prime Minister's Office then - befriends a journalist and is a party to her murder - she is stabbed 39 times!! - and can also be held responsible for the death of her 3 month old baby; and this is not rarest of rare??? this is not enough to shake up the conscience of the country of the MAHATMA???
src: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080044885&ch=3/25/2008%201:30:00%20AM
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I 2 was shocked(quite amazed infact!) with the judge referring Sharma as an asset. Was that at all necessary? His heinous act can no way be considered with sympathy for any of his 'good' work in the past!
@gud to c u back monk! keep continuing ur bak-bak :P
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