‘Naina Sahni’s body was not chopped into pieces’
9 Oct 2013 12:03 AM
After the Supreme Court’s verdict in the infamous ‘Tandoor’ murder case of 1995, Aditya Arya, former deputy commissioner of police said, ‘Naina Sahni’s body was not chopped into pieces before it was stuffed inside the Tandoor.’ The case refers to a 29-year-old woman Naina Sahni, who was burnt in a Tandoor post-mortem by her then husband and youth Congress president, Sushil Sharma, at Bagya Restaurant in Connaught Place intervening night of 2-3 July 1995.
Speaking to Millennium Post, Arya said, ‘Even after the Supreme Court verdict, which has commuted the death penalty given to Sushil Sharma to life imprisonment, the crime sequence remains unestablished. Whether the body was cut into pieces before it was burnt or not, is yet to be cleared in the chargesheet filed in the case.’
He added that as per his investigation, the body was not cut into pieces, but it was stuffed into the Tandoor. Due to the heat generated and the rod used to press the body inside the Tandoor, the body showed the impacts of being chopped. Arya said, ‘The body was identified with the help of DNA test and the reports of the two X-Rays that stated that she received gunshot injuries on her head and neck. Naina’s family refused to take her body for cremation after the post-mortem.’
Sharma had killed his wife at their residence in Gole Market on 2 July, 1995, after having a heated argument over their strained marriage. Sharma suspected that Naina was having an extra-marital affair with Matloob Karim, who was her classmate and a fellow Congress worker. ‘After shooting her twice with his service revolver, he kept the body in his car and went to the Yamuna Bank. Finding a lot of people near the river bank, he took a U-turn and reached his friend’s restaurant to dispose the body in a Tandoor,’ Arya said.
Describing the day of the incident, then Constable Abdul Nazir Kunju told Millennium Post that he is happy with the verdict announced by Supreme Court. ‘During the investigation in 1995, Sharma had threatened me of dire consequences, as I was the only witness in this case. But I was not afraid, even if he is alive in jail,’ Kunju added.
Speaking to Millennium Post, Arya said, ‘Even after the Supreme Court verdict, which has commuted the death penalty given to Sushil Sharma to life imprisonment, the crime sequence remains unestablished. Whether the body was cut into pieces before it was burnt or not, is yet to be cleared in the chargesheet filed in the case.’
He added that as per his investigation, the body was not cut into pieces, but it was stuffed into the Tandoor. Due to the heat generated and the rod used to press the body inside the Tandoor, the body showed the impacts of being chopped. Arya said, ‘The body was identified with the help of DNA test and the reports of the two X-Rays that stated that she received gunshot injuries on her head and neck. Naina’s family refused to take her body for cremation after the post-mortem.’
Sharma had killed his wife at their residence in Gole Market on 2 July, 1995, after having a heated argument over their strained marriage. Sharma suspected that Naina was having an extra-marital affair with Matloob Karim, who was her classmate and a fellow Congress worker. ‘After shooting her twice with his service revolver, he kept the body in his car and went to the Yamuna Bank. Finding a lot of people near the river bank, he took a U-turn and reached his friend’s restaurant to dispose the body in a Tandoor,’ Arya said.
Describing the day of the incident, then Constable Abdul Nazir Kunju told Millennium Post that he is happy with the verdict announced by Supreme Court. ‘During the investigation in 1995, Sharma had threatened me of dire consequences, as I was the only witness in this case. But I was not afraid, even if he is alive in jail,’ Kunju added.
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