New Delhi: Madhu Sharma, wife of suspended IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma, prime accused in journalist Shivani murder case, on October 5 alleged that Delhi police was "severely torturing" her husband in custody.

She told reporters outside the police station where he was being interrogated that her husband's lawyers informed her that Ravi Kant Sharma was not able to speak. "This means the police have been continuously torturing him," she added.

Armed with a court order, which allowed a meeting with her husband, Madhu Sharma claimed that she had not been allowed to meet her husband for the last 72 hours and threatened to sit on an "indefinite dharna" if she was not allowed to meet him.

Reacting to media reports that her husband had confessed to the crime of "conspiring the murder of Shivani", Madhu sarcastically said, "let me go and ask (from Shrama). I know what confessions Delhi police plant".

Madhu also alleged that all the case diaries of the murder case had been destroyed and new case diaries had been written to "falsely implicate my husband".

Later, Madhu was allowed to meet her husband. However, police did not allow Ravi Kant Sharma's daughters, Pragati and Komal, to meet their father.

PTI