{"id":15945,"date":"2012-01-05T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=15945"},"modified":"2012-01-05T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T05:56:13","slug":"shivani-murder-court-seeks-police-reply-on-parole-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/shivani-murder-court-seeks-police-reply-on-parole-plea","title":{"rendered":"Shivani murder: Court seeks police reply on parole plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/shivani-murder-court-seeks-police-reply-on-parole-plea\/shivani-bhatnagar-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15946\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/shivani-murder-court-seeks-police-reply-on-parole-plea\/shivani-bhatnagar-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/Shivani-Bhatnagar.jpg?fit=201%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"201,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shivani Bhatnagar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/Shivani-Bhatnagar.jpg?fit=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/Shivani-Bhatnagar.jpg?fit=201%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15946\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Shivani-Bhatnagar.jpg?resize=201%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/Shivani-Bhatnagar.jpg?w=201&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/Shivani-Bhatnagar.jpg?resize=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought a response from Delhi Police on a plea by Pradeep Sharma, a convict serving life term in the journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, seeking parole for re-establishing family contact.<\/p>\n<p>Shivani, a journalist with the Indian Express, was murdered at her Navkunj Apartments flat at I.P. Extension in east Delhi Jan 23, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Mukta Gupta would now take up the plea March 14.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma said that Oct 8, 2009 he was granted bail for two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI be allowed to be released on parole for re-establishing family and social ties as there was no allegation that I had earlier breached conditions imposed by the court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct 12 last year upheld the rigorous life imprisonment sentence awarded to Sharma by the trial court March 24, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The high court acquitted former Haryana police officer R.K. Sharma and two other accused Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought a response from Delhi Police on a plea by Pradeep Sharma, a convict serving life term in the journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, seeking parole for re-establishing family contact. 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