Salma murder co-accused gets bail

Korba : Co-accused Atul Sharma has got bail in the news anchor Salma Sultan murder case. Atul, along with main accused Madhur Sahu and Kaushal Shriwas, had helped in hiding the body. Advocate Kamlesh Sahu appeared on behalf of Atul in Korba District Court. Who presented the argument and said that Atul had not murdered Salma. In fact, he had helped the murderers in hiding the dead body. Which comes under section 201, 120(B). According to the Indian Penal Code, this is a bailable section. Accepting these arguments, the court has granted bail to Atul Sharma. In this case, Sangpushpa Bhatpahari, First Additional Sessions Judge Korba has accepted the bail application. The court has told in the bail that the accused is in jail in judicial custody from 15 August 2023. There is no previous criminal record against him. Considering that this is the first crime of the accused, he is being given conditional bail. The accused will also have to pay a bond of Rs 25,000. The court also said that he will have to appear in every hearing related to this case. During this period, Atul Sharma is not to commit any kind of crime.

All conditions must be followed. The matter of not influencing any evidence and not absconding has also been mentioned in the order. News anchor Salma, living in Kusmunda, Korba, was missing since 2018. Suddenly one day at the end of May 2023, the police started digging the land on the banks of the canal near Bhavani Temple on Darri-Korba main road. It was revealed that the wires were related to the disappearance of the missing news anchor. CSP Darri IPS Robinson Gudiya and another trainee IPS Rohit Kumar Shah were leading this entire matter. The missing report was registered in Kusmunda police station in 2019 itself. The matter was pending for 5 years. Police also came to know that gym operator youth Madhur and Salma had taken a loan of lakhs of rupees from the same bank. The amount of the loan which was in Salma’s name was continuously accumulating. This amount was being deposited in the bank by none other than Salma’s boyfriend Madhur Sahu. Later it was revealed that Salma was pressurizing her boyfriend to marry her. There were problems in their relationship. After which Madhur himself strangled his girlfriend and news anchor Salma to death.