New Delhi: Senior police official and key suspect in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, R K Sharma, was on September 28 produced before a Delhi court after being brought from Ambala by the Delhi police amidst tight security around the Karkardooma court complex.

Seeking 14 days custody, the police said that the document taken away from Shivani's house by the killers pertained to Prime Minister's Office and they wanted to interrogate him as to how these documents reached her house.

Sharma, who surrendered before an Ambala court on September 27, told the metropolitan magistrate J P Narain that he had never absconded and was only seeking judicial remedy.

"Police was spreading rumour that I have fled to a foreign country just to humiliate me. But the truth was that I was seeking judicial remedy. To call me an absconder was cent per cent nonsense," Sharma spoke before metropolitan magistrate J P Narain.

"I have been hounded and harassed," he said even as police sought 14 days custody to interrogate him saying that he had hired contract killers to eliminate Shivani.

Special public prosecutor S K Saxena submitted before the court that the police needed to conduct custodial interrogation as "Sharma was the architect of the murder and he arranged contract killers to do the job for him".

"The police needs to interrogate him regarding the payments made to the contract killers and recover other documents relating to the murder," he said.

However, counsel for Sharma, R K Nasim, said that the police was seeking custodial interrogation only to humiliate his client, who had earlier been interrogated and even subjected to polygraphy test.

PTI