New Delhi: Senior IPS officer R K Sharma, prime suspect in journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case who surrendered in a Haryana court after eluding police for nearly two months, was on September 28 remanded to 10 days' police custody by a Delhi court.

Metropolitan magistrate J P Narain sent the suspended Haryana inspector general (prisons), who was produced in a jam-packed court room after being brought to the capital from Ambala on a transit remand by a Delhi police team, to 10 days police custody as the prosecution claimed that he was the architect of the murder, which was executed by hired killers.

Amidst tightest ever security arrangements around the Karkardooma court complex in East Delhi, Sharma was brought to the court room with police throwing a ring of security personnel around him and deploying several in plain clothes to keep the onlookers at bay.

Seeking 14 days police remand, special public prosecutor S K Saxena said that the hired killers took away certain documents relating to the Prime Minister's Office from her house and the police wanted to interrogate Sharma as to how these documents landed in her flat.

PTI