Lahoria case: Former police chief of Navi Mum under lens

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday directed the city crime branch to look into "new incriminating material produced by petitioner Sandeep Lahoria" against former Navi Mumbai police chief Ashok Sharma in connection with Sunil Lahoria murder case.

The order comes before Sharma retires on September 30. The petitioner's counsel has submitted call data records and some photographs in support of his allegations that Sharma had maintained contact with the accused. Sandeep had filed a writ petition before the Bombay high court last week complaining that the crime branch had not probed Sharma's alleged role.

The division bench of Justice BP Colabawala and Justice Naresh Patil, while disposing of Lahoria's petition, directed that an assistant commissioner of the crime branch should record Sandeep's statement. Earlier the crime branch had given a clean chit to Sharma.

Sunil Lahoria was shot dead outside his office in Navi Mumbai in February 2013. — S Ahmed Ali

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