The Indian Express
- Keeping up the psychological pressure. Sharma's cell in Adarsh Nagar police station has a grisly blown-up picture of Shivani's stabbed and strangled body lying on the blood-splattered floor of her East Delhi flat. This is a police photograph taken after her murder on January 23, 1999.
- Treating Sharma like an ordinary accused in police remand. No special outside food. Making him sleep on the floor and use the common toilet.
- Confronting him with the other accused during interrogation.
- Launching a massive investigation into Sharma's financial dealings, including the assets owned by him. Interrogating those having business dealings with him. Police are already probing the possible connivance of Sharma with Gurgaon cinema owner Dev Vashisht in real estate dealings.
- Deputing cops who know French and English to overhear conversation between Sharma and his family whenever they meet.
