Court demand doctors be examined in tandoor case

Court demand doctors be examined in tandoor case
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI, JULY 23: A city court holding trial in the "Tandoor murder case" has ordered the police to examine two doctors in connection with the scientific tests conducted on the body of former Delhi Youth Congress president Sushil Sharma's wife Naina Sahni.

Additional sessions judge G P Thareja has recently directed special prosecutor A P Ahluwalia to examine the two doctors, G V Rao and Jogender Singh, who had conducted the experiments on her body, before the end of this month.

On the request of the prosecution, the court, which is hearing the case on day-to-day basis, had earlier said that the two doctors should be summoned so that the facts, in what manner the experiments were conducted, could be ascertained.

During recording of evidence, the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) director Lalji Singh had said that Dr Joginder Singh of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital had prepared the Medico Legal Certificate (MLC) of the burnt body and Dr G V Rao had carried out the DNA test. Dr Singh's name was omitted as a witness earlier due to some error, Ahluwalia had said.

The court is hearing on day-to-day basis the case wherein Sharma had allegedly shot his wife Naina Sahni dead and then attempted to burn her body in Bagiya Restaurant here on July 2, 1995.

Besides Sushil Sharma, Bagiya Restaurant manager Keshav had also been facing trial in the case. Both Sharma and Keshav had been in the judicial custody since their arrest in July that year.

In the last five years, the court has so far recorded evidence of 84 witnesses, with the last one being examined on Saturday.

According to Ahluwalia, six more witnesses would be examined including the two doctors, Naina Sahni's music teacher and the investigating officer in the case.