What was cooked in the oven (tandoor)??

Politician Sushil Sharma shot his 26-year-old wife Naina Sahani on July 2, 1995 at his Gole market flat in New Delhi.

Sharma disposed of the body with the help of one Keshav Kumar in the ‘tandoor’ (oven) of Bagia Restaurant in Ashoka Yatri Niwas, close to Parliament House - a restaurant run by ITDC.

Keshav Kumar was caught red-handed. Police retrieved the charred body parts from the oven of the restaurant.

Staff and customers of the hotel say that they smell burning human flesh on the  2nd of July each year. The thick air surrounding the tandoor area is believed to be capable of suffocating anybody on this particular day. 

Ashoka Yatri Niwas now has been turned into a luxury hotel -- Ramada Plaza. 

Additional Sessions Judge G P Thareja, sentenced Sushil Kumar to death in a 254 page judgement in 2003. 

Everyone reveres a dead body on its last journey. By burning the dead body in the ‘tandoor’ Sushil Sharma ensured that Naina Sahni would go unwept, unsung and unheard.

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On July 2, 2008 I attended a convention of social activists at Shangri-La Hotel - the tallest skyscraper among the hotels of Delhi. Later, I had arranged to meet a new lady client at Lutyen’s the coffeeshop at Ramada’s which is located in the same area. 

The client turned up on dot. I asked her if she would like a coffee – she refused. She then went on to narrate the details of Naina Sahani’s murder and disposal of her body.

I asked her what she specifically wanted from me. 

She replied ....................
I seek my corporeal existence restored to me!!!!!!
I seek to enjoy pleasures of life that had bee denied to me by my murder!!!
I seek to kill ................................. those who conspired to dispose of my body without a trace.

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My real client found me asleep in the hotel lobby on a classic Italian recliner near a bronze statute, beneath a sparkling Austrian chandelier with hand inlay work of semi precious stones.

People claim that it is (the recliner) the exact location where the ‘tandoor’ of the ‘Bagia’ restaurant was situated.